Definition of table data (see notes after table for additional information):

• Live births includes data from the Centers for Disease Control and from state health departments.
• Abortions, reported includes data from the Centers for Disease Control and from state health departments.
• Abortions includes estimates from Alan Guttmacher Institute surveys.
• Abortions, merged combines official reported data and Guttmacher figures with the compiler's estimates (provisional).
• Fetal deaths generally includes fetal deaths or stillbirths of at least 20 weeks` gestation.
• 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 15-44.
• Abortion %, merged is abortions as percentage of pregnancies, using the abortions, merged figures (provisional).
• Abortion rate, merged is abortion per 1000 women ages 15-44, using the abortions, merged figures (provisional).

Note: 2025 data are for January to June.

North Carolina county level data also available: abortions and live births and abortion percentages with state map.

Notes:

• For 2024, "AGI" figures are full year estimate based on January-November figures.
• For most states, CDC/state data are incomplete.
• Parenthetical figures are estimates, some of which are derived from reported data.
• Abortion ratios, percentages, and rates may be based on a mix of CDC/state and AGI data and thus may not represent a consistent time series.

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• Johnston, Wm. Robert, Dec. 2019, "United States: State-level abortion estimates, 1967-2018," AWR Working Paper 33, forthcoming.
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• Smith, Mikaela H., Zoe Muzyczka, Payal Chakraborty, Elaina Johns-Wolfe, Jenny Higgins, Danielle Bessett, and Alison H. Norris, 2022, "Abortion travel within the United States: An observational study of cross-state movement to obtain abortion care in 2017," Lancet Regional Health--Americas, 10:100214, doi:10.1016/j.lana.2022.100214
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• Maddow-Zimet, Isaac, Jesse Philbin, Isabel DoCampo, Rachel K. Jones, Aisiri Murulidhar, Mariah Menanno, Priscille Osias, Lauren Mitchell, Elizabeth A. Sully, and Emma Stoskopf-Ehrlich, 2023, "Monthly abortion provision study," Guttmacher Institute, on line [https://www.guttmacher.org/monthly-abortion-provision-study], data supplement at [https://osf.io/k4x7t/].
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• Osterman, Michelle J. K., Brady E. Hamilton, Joyce A. Martin, Anne K. Driscoll, and Claudia P. Valenzuela, 4 April 2024, "Births: Final data for 2022," National Vital Statistics Reports, 73(2):1-56, on line at Centers for Disease Control [https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr73/nvsr73-02.pdf].
• Ramer, Stephanie, Antoinette T. Nguyen, Lisa M. Hollier, Jessica Rodenhizer, Lee Warner, and Maura K. Whiteman, 28 Nov. 2024, "Abortion surveillance--United States, 2022," Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 73(7):1-31, on line at Centers for Disease Control [https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/ss/pdfs/ss7307a1-H.pdf].
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