Abortion statistics and other data--Johnston`s Archive
Historical abortion statistics, Beijing (PR China)
compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated 16 July 2026
Definition of table data (see notes after table for additional information):
- Abortions, all to residents include all abortions obtained by prefecture residents.
- Abortion ratio is abortions per 1000 live births.
- Abortion % is abortions as percentage of pregnancies (excluding fetal deaths/miscarriages).
| year | live births | abortions | abortion ratio | abortion % |
|---|
| all to residents | all to residents | all to residents |
|---|
| 1956 | 150,400 | 1,593 | | |
| 1957 | | | | |
| 1958 | | | | |
| 1959 | | | | |
| 1960 | | | | |
| 1961 | | | | |
| 1962 | | | | |
| 1963 | | | | |
| 1964 | | | | |
| 1965 | 179,300 | 63,000 | 351.4 | 26.00 |
| 1966 | | | | |
| 1967 | | | | |
| 1968 | | | | |
| 1969 | | | | |
| 1970 | | | | |
| 1971 | | | | |
| 1972 | 142,000 | | | |
| 1973 | 127,400 | | | |
| 1974 | 98,200 | | | |
| 1975 | 81,800 | | | |
| 1976 | 75,300 | | | |
| 1977 | 85,900 | | | |
| 1978 | 110,000 | | | |
| 1979 | 119,500 | | | |
| 1980 | 138,000 | | | |
| 1981 | 159,200 | | | |
| 1982 | | | | |
| 1983 | | | | |
| 1984 | | | | |
| 1985 | | | | |
| 1986 | | | | |
| 1987 | | | | |
| 1988 | 155,700 | 54,500 | 350.0 | 25.93 |
| 1989 | | | | |
| 1990 | 141,300 | 49,500 | 350.3 | 25.94 |
| 1991 | 87,800 | 48,300 | 550.1 | 35.49 |
| 1992 | 101,600 | 30,500 | 300.2 | 23.09 |
| 1993 | | | | |
| 1994 | 100,800 | 18,100 | 179.6 | 15.22 |
| 1995 | | | | |
| 1996 | 101,000 | 13,100 | 129.7 | 11.48 |
| 1997 | | | | |
| 1998 | 74,800 | | | |
| 1999 | | | | |
| 2000 | 84,600 | | | |
| 2001 | 84,500 | | | |
| 2002 | 93,900 | 292,843 | 3,118.7 | 75.72 |
| 2003 | 74,300 | 284,642 | 3,831.0 | 79.30 |
| 2004 | 91,100 | 307,122 | 3,371.3 | 77.12 |
| 2005 | 96,700 | 154,699 | 1,599.8 | 61.54 |
| 2006 | 100,200 | 146,136 | 1,458.4 | 59.32 |
| 2007 | 139,400 | 140,285 | 1,006.3 | 50.16 |
| 2008 | 144,700 | 137,010 | 946.9 | 48.64 |
| 2009 | 149,900 | 88,111 | 587.8 | 37.02 |
| 2010 | 146,800 | 210,761 | 1,435.7 | 58.94 |
| 2011 | 167,800 | 207,557 | 1,236.9 | 55.30 |
| 2012 | 188,100 | 191,291 | 1,017.0 | 50.42 |
| 2013 | 189,800 | 71,753 | 378.0 | 27.43 |
| 2014 | 211,700 | 201,450 | 951.6 | 48.76 |
| 2015 | 174,200 | 190,081 | 1,091.2 | 52.18 |
| 2016 | 204,600 | 170,208 | 831.9 | 45.41 |
| 2017 | 198,800 | 157,603 | 792.8 | 44.22 |
| 2018 | 180,600 | 143,663 | 795.5 | 44.30 |
| 2019 | 177,800 | 140,402 | 789.7 | 44.12 |
| 2020 | 153,000 | | | |
| 2021 | 139,000 | | | |
| 2022 | 123,800 | | | |
| 2023 | 123,100 | | | |
| 2024 | 132,900 | | | |
| 2025 | | | | |
| year | live births | abortions | abortion ratio | abortion % |
|---|
| all to residents | all to residents | all to residents |
|---|
Notes:
- Live births are estimated from reported populations and raw birth rates.
- Abortion data are generally estimated from reported abortion ratios and estimated live births and may be incomplete.
Sources:
- China Training Center, Reproductive Health and Family Care, 2011, "Total national family planning procedures performed (1971-2009)," CTC, on line [http://www.ctc-health.org.cn/file/2011shoushu.pdf].
- GSWS (PRC), on line [http://www.gsws.gov.cn/...3/.../20100316201139457.xls]
- Ministry of Health (PRC), on line [http://www.moh.gov.cn/publicfiles/business/htmlfiles/zwgkzt/ptjnj/year2010/2010t7/sheet007.htm]
- Ministry of Health (PRC), on line [http://www.moh.gov.cn/open/statistics/year2007/p196.htm]
- Ministry of Health (PRC), on line [http://www.moh.gov.cn/open/statistics/year2006/p204.htm]
- Ministry of Health (PRC), on line [http://www.moh.gov.cn/open/statistics/on_net_file_2005/s140.htm]
- Ministry of Health (PRC), on line [http://www.moh.gov.cn/open/statistics/year2004/p168.htm]
- National Bureau of Statistics, 2012, "Population, birth rate, death rate, and natural growth rate by region, 1978-2006", on line, National Bureau of Statistics [http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/]
- Office of Technology Assessment, 1982, World Population and Fertility Planning Technologies: The Next 20 Years, US GPO (Washington, DC), on line at FAS [http://www.fas.org/ota/reports/8235.pdf].
- Scharping, Thomas, 2003, Birth Control in China 1949-2000: Population Policy and Demographic Development, RoutledgeCurzon (London, UK).
- Tien, H. Yuan, 1963, "Induced abortion and population control in mainland China," Marriage and Family Living, 25(1):35-43.
- Tien, H. Yuan, 1992, "Abortion in China: Incidence and implications," in The Population of Modern China, ed. By Dudley L. Poston, Jr., and David Yaukey, Plenum Press (New York, NY), pp. 287-310.
- Zhou, Viola, Nov. 2015, "Abortion in China: Policy and data," The Data and News Society, on line [https://dnnsociety.org/2015/11/29/abortion_in_china/].
- Zhou, Viola, 2024, "Abortion in China," Tableau, on line [https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/viola.zhou/viz/Data3_10/Dashboard1].
- [https://data.stats.gov.cn/english/easyquery.htm?cn=E0103].
- [https://www.stats.gov.cn/sj/ndsj/2025/indexeh.htm].
- [https://www.stats.gov.cn/english/Statisticaldata/yearlydata/YB1999e/d03e.htm].
- [https://www.legrandsoir.info/IMG/pdf/2013-2019_tableaux.pdf].
- (incomplete)
© 2026 by Wm. Robert Johnston.
Last modified 16 July 2026.
Return to Home. Return to Other Policy Issues. Return to
Abortion Statistics.