Historical abortion statistics, Shanxi (PR China)

Abortion statistics and other data--Johnston`s Archive

Historical abortion statistics, Shanxi (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 %
year	live births	all to residents	all to residents	all to residents
1956	467,800
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965	636,300
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972	652,200
1973	609,700
1974	595,500
1975	543,300
1976	465,100
1977	420,400
1978	379,500
1979	382,300
1980	419,700
1981	509,500
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988	558,700	45,000	80.5	7.45
1989
1990	653,400	137,000	209.7	17.33
1991	634,300	152,000	239.6	19.33
1992	583,600	158,000	270.7	21.31
1993
1994	531,700	186,000	349.8	25.92
1995
1996	515,800	134,000	259.8	20.62
1997
1998	510,400
1999
2000	392,900
2001	427,300
2002	423,600	91,072	215.0	17.70
2003	406,300	91,811	226.0	18.43
2004	412,200	90,112	218.6	17.94
2005	403,300	87,412	216.7	17.81
2006	387,500	98,245	253.5	20.23
2007	383,400	101,064	263.6	20.86
2008	386,100	146,290	378.9	27.48
2009	372,500	91,655	246.1	19.75
2010	381,700	90,714	237.7	19.20
2011	372,900	98,210	263.4	20.85
2012	379,600	116,006	305.6	23.41
2013	382,100	91,611	239.8	19.34
2014	385,300	182,160	472.8	32.10
2015	351,200	203,797	580.3	36.72
2016	361,600	168,685	466.5	31.81
2017	388,200	170,681	439.7	30.54
2018	337,200	165,111	489.7	32.87
2019	318,900	164,992	517.4	34.10
2020	288,300
2021	245,700
2022	235,000
2023	212,500
2024	239,200
2025
year	live births	abortions	abortion ratio	abortion %
year	live births	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:

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