Percentage of Pregnancies Aborted--by Percentage

compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated 13 August 2005

Percent of known pregnancies ending in legal abortions, most recent data (in order of decreasing percentage)

countryyear%notes
Russia200258.2data incomplete
Ukraine200053.0
Belarus200152.5
Romania200351.2data incomplete
Bosnia and Herzegovina198848.9
Greenland200246.6
Estonia200245.5
Bulgaria200243.3
Latvia200242.3
Guadaloupe199841
Kazakhstan200037.9
Vietnam200237data incomplete
Hungary200236.7
Cuba200034.7
Yugoslavia199831.4data incomplete
Moldova200230.6data incomplete
Martinique199930
Hong Kong200129.6data incomplete
Slovenia200229.5
Lithuania200229.4data incomplete
Cocos Islands197829
Belize199628.1
Macedonia200028.0data incomplete
PR China200127.1data incomplete
Sweden200325.7
Slovakia200225.5
New Caledonia199825.2
Czech Republic200225.1
South Korea199625.0estimated
New Zealand200324.8
United States200224.3estimated
Canada200224.2data incomplete
Reunion198824.1
Singapore200223.8
Georgia200223.0data incomplete
Puerto Rico199222.9
Australia200322.5data incomplete
Armenia200222.5data incomplete
Turkmenistan199722.4
Japan200322.2data incomplete
United Kingdom200421.8
France200221.3data incomplete
Mongolia199720.6data incomplete
Norway200419.8
Turkey199319.7estimated
Denmark200319.4
Kyrgyzstan200119.2data incomplete
Italy200219.1data incomplete
Iceland200318.7
(Texas)200217.0
Finland200315.9
Spain200315.3data incomplete
Isle of Man200415.0abortions in the UK
Germany200315.0
Turks and Caicos Islands199615
Dominican Republic199814.8
Albania200114.7data incomplete
French Guiana198414.4data incomplete
Switzerland200214.0
Croatia200213.4data incomplete
Azerbaijan200213.0data incomplete
ROC Taiwan199913.0data incomplete
Netherlands200212.7
Israel200312.2
Belgium200112.2
Tajikistan200011.7
Greece199611.1
Barbados199511
Bermuda1984 9.8
Tunisia1996 9.6estimated
Uzbekistan20009.4data incomplete
Ireland20039.3abortions abroad
Channel Islands20008.7data incomplete
Seychelles1990 8.3
South Africa2003 8.0data incomplete
Saint Helena1990 7.1
Gibraltar19973.6abortions abroad, data incomplete
Faeroe Islands1975 3.2
Austria20003.0
India2001 2.8data incomplete
Suriname19942.8data incomplete
Malta20031.2abortions abroad, data incomplete
Venezuela19680.8
Zambia1983 0.4data incomplete
Portugal20020.3
United Arab Emirates20030.2abortions in the UK only
Mexico2000 0.12data incomplete
Bahrain20020.1abortions in the UK only
Botswana1984 0.1data incomplete
Kuwait2001 0.05abortions in the UK only
Qatar2003 0.04abortions in the UK only
Poland20030.05
Panama20000.02data incomplete
Luxembourg19970.02abortions abroad, data incomplete
Chile1991 0.02
Zimbabwe19960.01abortions in the UK only
Saudi Arabia2003 0.002abortions in the UK only
Egypt2003 0.001abortions in the UK only


update of section VII, "Global Abortion Summary," version 3, March 2000
© 2000-2004, 2005 by Wm. Robert Johnston.
Last modified 13 August 2005.
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