Historical abortion statistics, Yamagata (Japan)

Abortion statistics and other data--Johnston`s Archive

Historical abortion statistics, Yamagata (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	29,102		2,888
1900	29,217		2,589
1901	33,058		3,122
1902	31,986		3,035
1903	32,066		3,047
1904	29,468		2,817
1905	30,045		2,675
1906	28,415		2,785
1907	33,279		2,820
1908	33,247		2,859
1909	34,927		2,924
1910	33,787		2,753
1911	36,320		2,885
1912	34,315		2,730
1913	35,016		2,789
1914	35,689		2,675
1915	36,752		2,686
1916	35,754		2,512
1917	35,111		2,541
1918	35,974		2,500
1919	34,960		2,371
1920	40,685		2,635
1921	40,115		2,427
1922	38,653		2,291
1923	41,395		2,400
1924	40,931		2,299
1925	41,133		2,296
1926	42,584		2,248
1927	41,112		2,057
1928	41,824		2,082
1929	40,062		2,015
1930	42,403		2,038
1931	39,275		1,857
1932	42,179		2,054
1933	40,186		1,907
1934	39,438		1,970
1935	41,073		2,050
1936	39,214		1,910
1937	40,387		1,948
1938	36,442		1,677
1939	34,297		1,660
1940	36,384		1,637
1941	35,393		1,577
1942	35,744		1,470
1943	35,089		1,354
1944
1945
1946
1947	43,941		1,914
1948	42,059		2,115
1949	44,112		3,124
1950	40,694		3,938
1951	35,169		3,823
1952	34,327		3,758
1953	30,416		3,467
1954	29,038		3,226
1955	27,311	27,059	3,194	990.8	49.77	76.1
1956	25,893		3,066
1957	24,298		3,032
1958	24,441		3,008
1959	23,188		2,853
1960	22,288	17,910	2,555	803.6	44.55	50.9
1961	21,057		2,446
1962	20,433		2,270
1963	19,479		2,019
1964	18,970		1,823
1965	18,864	10,177	1,776	539.5	35.04	28.7
1966	13,795		1,597
1967	19,186		1,524
1968	17,588		1,391
1969	17,387		1,416
1970	17,222	8,376	1,365	486.4	32.72	24.8
1971	17,315		1,282
1972	17,811		1,182
1973	18,203		1,124
1974	18,231		1,045
1975	17,226	8,002	1,040	464.5	31.72	25.1
1976	17,947		1,044
1977	17,330		916
1978	17,555		929
1979	17,249		924
1980	16,871	8,872	906	525.9	34.46	29.3
1981	16,080		840
1982	15,764		833
1983	15,623		814
1984	15,533		818
1985	14,893	8,116	809	545.0	35.27	28.9
1986	14,695		734
1987	14,026		663
1988	13,951		640
1989	13,033		589
1990	12,555	6,385	607	508.6	33.71	23.0
1991	12,488	5,961	497	477.3	32.31
1992	12,001	5,450	519	454.1	31.23
1993	11,806	5,128	469	434.4	30.28
1994	12,158	4,681	432	385.0	27.80
1995	11,507	4,213	444	366.1	26.80	16.1
1996	11,643	4,247	436	364.8	26.73
1997	11,215	4,172	407	372.0	27.11
1998	11,030	4,105	410	372.2	27.12	15.3
1999	10,815	4,059	405	375.3	27.29	15.4
2000	10,919	3,954	419	362.1	26.59	15.3
2001	10,907	3,888	362	356.5	26.28	15.2
2002	10,489	3,626	346	345.7	25.69	14.4
2003	10,087	3,279	372	325.1	24.53	13.3
2004	9,920	3,097	351	312.2	23.79	12.6
2005	9,357	2,897	274	309.6	23.64	12.0
2006	9,513	2,584	267	271.6	21.36	11.0
2007	9,139	2,297	294	251.3	20.09	9.9
2008	9,164	2,052	227	223.9	18.30	9.0
2009	8,715	1,934	247	221.9	18.16	8.6
2010	8,651	1,784	231	206.2	17.10	8.3
2011	8,555	1,548	218	180.9	15.32	7.3
2012	8,212	1,622	216	197.5	16.49	7.8
2013	8,159	1,408	177	172.6	14.72	6.9
2014	7,966	1,360	173	170.7	14.58	6.8
2015	7,831	1,352	181	172.6	14.72	6.8
2016	7,547	1,218	165	161.4	13.90	6.2
2017	7,259	1,168	159	160.9	13.86	6.1
2018	6,973	1,090	148	156.3	13.52	5.8
2019	6,401	982	147	153.4	13.30	5.3
2020	6,217	874	119	140.6	12.33	4.9
2021	5,898	781	98	132.4	11.69	4.4
2022	5,674	662	114	116.7	10.45	3.8
2023	5,151	662	107	128.5	11.39
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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