Abortion statistics and other data--Johnston`s Archive
Historical abortion statistics, Gansu (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 | 399,000 | | | |
| 1957 | | | | |
| 1958 | | | | |
| 1959 | | | | |
| 1960 | | | | |
| 1961 | | | | |
| 1962 | | | | |
| 1963 | | | | |
| 1964 | | | | |
| 1965 | 609,500 | | | |
| 1966 | | | | |
| 1967 | | | | |
| 1968 | | | | |
| 1969 | | | | |
| 1970 | | | | |
| 1971 | | | | |
| 1972 | 641,700 | | | |
| 1973 | 617,200 | 49,841 | 80.8 | 7.47 |
| 1974 | 489,700 | 48,585 | 99.2 | 9.03 |
| 1975 | 378,700 | 44,753 | 118.2 | 10.57 |
| 1976 | 324,000 | 29,046 | 89.6 | 8.23 |
| 1977 | 323,600 | 33,116 | 102.3 | 9.28 |
| 1978 | 332,800 | 39,571 | 118.9 | 10.63 |
| 1979 | 313,000 | 94,203 | 301.0 | 23.13 |
| 1980 | 316,700 | 46,533 | 146.9 | 12.81 |
| 1981 | 321,500 | 63,927 | 198.8 | 16.59 |
| 1982 | | | | |
| 1983 | | | | |
| 1984 | | | | |
| 1985 | | | | |
| 1986 | | | | |
| 1987 | | | | |
| 1988 | 436,000 | 22,000 | 50.5 | 4.80 |
| 1989 | | | | |
| 1990 | 466,300 | 173,000 | 371.0 | 27.06 |
| 1991 | 442,800 | 106,000 | 239.4 | 19.31 |
| 1992 | 448,200 | 81,000 | 180.7 | 15.31 |
| 1993 | | | | |
| 1994 | 495,100 | 64,000 | 129.3 | 11.45 |
| 1995 | | | | |
| 1996 | 454,700 | 91,000 | 200.1 | 16.68 |
| 1997 | | | | |
| 1998 | 414,400 | | | |
| 1999 | | | | |
| 2000 | 361,700 | | | |
| 2001 | 342,600 | | | |
| 2002 | 333,100 | 69,250 | 207.9 | 17.21 |
| 2003 | 319,200 | 70,279 | 220.2 | 18.04 |
| 2004 | 315,800 | 64,501 | 204.2 | 16.96 |
| 2005 | 320,400 | 75,181 | 234.6 | 19.01 |
| 2006 | 327,500 | 70,230 | 214.4 | 17.66 |
| 2007 | 334,800 | 69,849 | 208.6 | 17.26 |
| 2008 | 337,200 | 65,811 | 195.2 | 16.33 |
| 2009 | 340,300 | 41,344 | 121.5 | 10.83 |
| 2010 | 308,500 | 43,064 | 139.6 | 12.25 |
| 2011 | 308,300 | 49,267 | 159.8 | 13.78 |
| 2012 | 308,800 | 54,507 | 176.5 | 15.00 |
| 2013 | 308,500 | 51,477 | 166.9 | 14.30 |
| 2014 | 309,000 | 97,948 | 317.0 | 24.07 |
| 2015 | 311,800 | 98,315 | 315.3 | 23.97 |
| 2016 | 306,900 | 94,267 | 307.2 | 23.50 |
| 2017 | 316,300 | 118,798 | 375.6 | 27.30 |
| 2018 | 278,400 | 127,455 | 457.8 | 31.40 |
| 2019 | 266,000 | 139,415 | 524.1 | 34.39 |
| 2020 | 263,900 | | | |
| 2021 | 241,000 | | | |
| 2022 | 211,100 | | | |
| 2023 | 190,100 | | | |
| 2024 | 196,600 | | | |
| 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]
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- Ministry of Health (PRC), on line [http://www.moh.gov.cn/open/statistics/year2004/p168.htm]
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- 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].
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- [https://data.stats.gov.cn/english/easyquery.htm?cn=E0103].
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- [https://www.legrandsoir.info/IMG/pdf/2013-2019_tableaux.pdf].
- (incomplete)
© 2026 by Wm. Robert Johnston.
Last modified 16 July 2026.
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