Abortion statistics and other data--Johnston`s Archive
Historical abortion statistics, Inner Mongolia (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 | 256,900 | | | |
| 1957 | | | | |
| 1958 | | | | |
| 1959 | | | | |
| 1960 | | | | |
| 1961 | | | | |
| 1962 | | | | |
| 1963 | | | | |
| 1964 | | | | |
| 1965 | 492,400 | | | |
| 1966 | | | | |
| 1967 | | | | |
| 1968 | | | | |
| 1969 | | | | |
| 1970 | | | | |
| 1971 | | | | |
| 1972 | 271,700 | | | |
| 1973 | 265,500 | | | |
| 1974 | 249,500 | | | |
| 1975 | 226,500 | | | |
| 1976 | 205,400 | | | |
| 1977 | 192,000 | | | |
| 1978 | 197,300 | | | |
| 1979 | 423,500 | | | |
| 1980 | 411,900 | | | |
| 1981 | 439,800 | | | |
| 1982 | | | | |
| 1983 | | | | |
| 1984 | | | | |
| 1985 | | | | |
| 1986 | | | | |
| 1987 | | | | |
| 1988 | 418,000 | 38,000 | 90.9 | 8.33 |
| 1989 | | | | |
| 1990 | 458,300 | 115,000 | 250.9 | 20.06 |
| 1991 | 366,300 | 84,000 | 229.3 | 18.65 |
| 1992 | 376,700 | 102,000 | 270.8 | 21.31 |
| 1993 | | | | |
| 1994 | 428,900 | 69,000 | 160.9 | 13.86 |
| 1995 | | | | |
| 1996 | 371,200 | 45,000 | 121.2 | 10.81 |
| 1997 | | | | |
| 1998 | 337,700 | | | |
| 1999 | | | | |
| 2000 | 234,800 | | | |
| 2001 | 256,400 | | | |
| 2002 | 228,900 | 57,008 | 249.1 | 19.94 |
| 2003 | 220,500 | 63,476 | 287.9 | 22.35 |
| 2004 | 228,100 | 71,041 | 311.4 | 23.75 |
| 2005 | 242,200 | 72,339 | 298.7 | 23.00 |
| 2006 | 238,400 | 72,322 | 303.4 | 23.28 |
| 2007 | 248,000 | 72,340 | 291.7 | 22.58 |
| 2008 | 239,800 | 79,605 | 332.0 | 24.92 |
| 2009 | 235,200 | 50,153 | 213.2 | 17.58 |
| 2010 | 229,900 | 54,413 | 236.7 | 19.14 |
| 2011 | 220,800 | 55,467 | 251.2 | 20.08 |
| 2012 | 225,900 | 53,597 | 237.3 | 19.18 |
| 2013 | 220,500 | 59,744 | 270.9 | 21.32 |
| 2014 | 228,000 | 134,915 | 591.7 | 37.18 |
| 2015 | 188,400 | 131,369 | 697.3 | 41.08 |
| 2016 | 220,000 | 153,241 | 696.6 | 41.06 |
| 2017 | 230,400 | 156,708 | 680.2 | 40.48 |
| 2018 | 202,200 | 161,816 | 800.3 | 44.45 |
| 2019 | 198,800 | 165,935 | 834.7 | 45.49 |
| 2020 | 173,000 | | | |
| 2021 | 150,200 | | | |
| 2022 | 134,000 | | | |
| 2023 | 119,800 | | | |
| 2024 | 131,800 | | | |
| 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).
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- 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/].
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- [https://data.stats.gov.cn/english/easyquery.htm?cn=E0103].
- [https://www.stats.gov.cn/sj/ndsj/2025/indexeh.htm].
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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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