Historical abortion statistics, Wakayama (Japan)

Abortion statistics and other data--Johnston`s Archive

Historical abortion statistics, Wakayama (Japan)

compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated 22 May 2025

Definition of table data (see notes after table for additional information):

Abortions, all to residents include all abortions obtained by prefecture residents.
Fetal deaths includes stillbirths.
Abortion ratio is abortions per 1000 live births.
Abortion % is abortions as percentage of pregnancies (excluding fetal deaths/miscarriages).
Abortion rate is abortions per 1000 women ages 15-49.

year	live births	abortions	fetal deaths	abortion ratio	abortion %	abortion rate
year	live births	all to residents	fetal deaths	all to residents	all to residents	all to residents
1899	20,347		1,688
1900	20,549		1,935
1901	22,033		2,313
1902	23,088		2,439
1903	21,187		2,450
1904	19,735		2,169
1905	19,459		2,128
1906	20,241		2,329
1907	23,245		2,345
1908	24,392		2,428
1909	24,179		2,350
1910	23,881		2,398
1911	24,761		2,420
1912	24,405		2,345
1913	25,083		2,229
1914	24,803		2,153
1915	24,142		2,083
1916	24,015		1,996
1917	23,472		1,990
1918	23,665		1,988
1919	22,212		1,783
1920	26,267		1,864
1921	25,023		1,752
1922	24,890		1,792
1923	26,364		1,735
1924	24,333		1,675
1925	24,980		1,536
1926	25,977		1,614
1927	24,876		1,459
1928	26,390		1,541
1929	24,319		1,461
1930	24,744		1,492
1931	24,479		1,480
1932	25,952		1,454
1933	25,065		1,365
1934	23,084		1,305
1935	24,490		1,436
1936	23,397		1,240
1937	24,135		1,223
1938	20,519		1,104
1939	19,599		1,122
1940	21,253		1,099
1941	23,825		1,172
1942	23,489		1,089
1943	22,448		987
1944
1945
1946
1947	30,803		1,244
1948	29,695		1,570
1949	28,875		2,017
1950	23,739		2,194
1951	22,081		2,203
1952	19,756		2,004
1953	18,620		1,932
1954	17,619		1,851
1955	17,434	14,128	1,965	810.4	44.76	53.7
1956	17,052		1,792
1957	15,473		1,786
1958	16,841		1,787
1959	16,439		1,867
1960	15,905	13,609	1,801	855.6	46.11	50.9
1961	15,713		1,682
1962	16,152		1,638
1963	16,396		1,724
1964	16,975		1,589
1965	18,054	9,908	1,493	548.8	35.43	35.1
1966	11,962		1,295
1967	18,538		1,434
1968	17,994		1,382
1969	17,592		1,300
1970	17,974	4,526	1,234	251.8	20.12	15.9
1971	18,236		1,174
1972	18,355		1,157
1973	18,590		1,104
1974	17,896		1,009
1975	16,340	4,566	866	279.4	21.84	16.5
1976	15,698		912
1977	14,743		834
1978	14,590		770
1979	13,667		717
1980	13,444	4,064	590	302.3	23.21	15.0
1981	12,917		663
1982	12,999		696
1983	12,977		577
1984	12,630		554
1985	12,086	3,949	569	326.7	24.63	15.1
1986	11,868		510
1987	11,274		471
1988	10,888		464
1989	10,371		439
1990	10,126	3,385	423	334.3	25.05	12.8
1991	10,164	3,005	389	295.7	22.82
1992	9,937	2,852	368	287.0	22.30
1993	9,736	2,580	335	265.0	20.95
1994	10,152	2,555	340	251.7	20.11
1995	9,879	2,316	291	234.4	18.99	9.4
1996	10,131	2,159	294	213.1	17.57
1997	9,789	2,377	317	242.8	19.54
1998	9,886	2,322	315	234.9	19.02
1999	9,563	2,595	297	271.4	21.34
2000	9,566	2,705	299	282.8	22.04	12.0
2001	9,345	2,778	282	297.3	22.92	12.1
2002	8,943	2,959	263	330.9	24.86	13.1
2003	8,561	2,520	284	294.4	22.74	11.3
2004	8,153	2,429	252	297.9	22.95	11.0
2005	7,835	2,244	239	286.4	22.26	10.4
2006	7,930	2,070	206	261.0	20.70	9.9
2007	7,689	1,908	243	248.1	19.88	9.3
2008	7,866	1,761	223	223.9	18.29	8.7
2009	7,516	1,535	191	204.2	16.96	7.6
2010	7,587	1,476	176	194.5	16.29	7.6
2011	7,460	1,406	162	188.5	15.86	7.3
2012	7,424	1,359	159	183.1	15.47	7.2
2013	7,122	1,368	173	192.1	16.11	7.4
2014	7,140	1,331	148	186.4	15.71	7.4
2015	7,030	1,251	177	178.0	15.11	6.9
2016	6,659	1,147	155	172.2	14.69	6.4
2017	6,465	1,076	150	166.4	14.27	6.2
2018	6,070	939	125	154.7	13.40	5.5
2019	5,869	889	124	151.5	13.15	5.4
2020	5,732	826	111	144.1	12.60	5.1
2021	5,514	693	91	125.7	11.16	4.4
2022	5,238	677	112	129.2	11.45	4.4
2023	4,901	638	96	130.2	11.52
2024
year	live births	abortions	fetal deaths	abortion ratio	abortion %	abortion rate
year	live births	all to residents	fetal deaths	all to residents	all to residents	all to residents

Notes:

Abortion data may be significantly incomplete.

Sources:

Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, 2000, "Trends in vital statistics by prefecture over the past 100 years" (in Japanese), MHLW, on line [https://www.mhlw.go.jp/www1/toukei/kjd100_8/index.html#data]
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, 2024, "Table 56: Number and rate of induced abortions by year (per 1,000 women aged 15-49) by prefecture" (in Japanese), Tottori Prefecture, on line [https://www.pref.tottori.lg.jp/secure/1350626/%25E4%25BB%25A4%25E5%2592%258C%25EF%25BC%2594%25EF%25BC%258856%25E8%25A1%25A8%25EF%25BC%2589%25E5%25B9%25B4%25E6%25AC%25A1%25E5%2588%25A5%25E4%25BA%25BA%25E5%25B7%25A5%25E5%25A6%258A%25E5%25A8%25A0%25E4%25B8%25AD%25E7%25B5%25B6%25E4%25BB%25B6%25E6%2595%25B0%25E3%2580%2581%25E7%258E%2587%25EF%25BC%258815%25EF%25BD%259E49%25E6%25AD%25B3%25E5%25A5%25B3%25E5%25AD%2590%25E4%25BA%25BA%25E5%258F%25A3%25E5%258D%2583%25E5%25AF%25BE%25EF%25BC%2589%25EF%25BC%2588%25E9%2583%25BD%25E9%2581%2593%25E5%25BA%259C%25E7%259C%258C%25E5%2588%25A5%25EF%25BC%2589.xls].
National Statistics Center, 2024, "Vital statistics of Japan, Volume 1: Natality Table 4.3 Trends in live births by each prefecture: Japan," e-Stat, on line [https://www.e-stat.go.jp/en/stat-search/].
National Statistics Center, 2025, "Vital statistics, stillbirths" (in Japanese), e-Stat, on line [https://www.e-stat.go.jp/dbview?sid=0003411801].
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© 2025 by Wm. Robert Johnston.
Last modified 22 May 2025.
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