1. All numbers rounded. Because of rounding, components may not add to totals. Data for most recent periods may be subject to revision. 2. Six months later, unless otherwise indicated. 3. Live births, plus legal abortions. 4. Includes abortions on request and for medical reasons. 5. Number of abortions shown in UN Demographic Yearbook includes "other abortions" (women admitted to hospitals for treatment of complications of spontaneous or illegally induced abortions). 6. 1953-58: Starkaleff, 1961. 7. 1959-62: Klinger, 1970 (Abortions on request). 8. 1959-69: Vasilev, 1974 (Abortions for medical reasons). 9. 1963-69: Golemanov, 1973 (Abortions on request). 10. 1970-76: Bulgaria, 1977. 11. 1977-78: Response to questionnaire. 12. Ratios computed using births during calendar year. 13. Canada, 1980. Residents. 14. Canada, 1976. An estimate of 9,600 Canadian women obtaining abortions in the United States in 1975 appears on page 35. The same number is given for 1974 on page 81. 15. 1968-76: Rodriguez Castro, 1978. 16. 1977-78; 1968-76: Cuba, 1979. 17. 1954-57: Vojta, 1961. 18. 1958-64: Frejka, 1968. 19. 1965-79: Czechoslovakia, 1980. 20. Denmark, 1978, 1979, supplemented by response to questionnaire. 21. Annual averages. 22. 1961-67: The figures for the pri vate sector and, therefore, the totals as well, are estimates. Diggory, 1970. 23. Reported therapeutic abortions in National Health Service hospitals. 24. 1968-73: Occurrences. United Kingdom, 1974b. 25.27 April-31 December 1968. Rates and ratios computed on annual basis. 26. 1974-78: Occurrences. United Kingdom, 1980c 27. Notifications. United Kingdom, 1980b. 28. 1968-78: Occurrences. United Kingdom, 1974b and 1980c. 29. NHS National Health Service. Armed Services' hospitals included with non-NHS premises in 1968-73, with NHS hospitals in 1974-78. 30. 1951-70: Finland, 1972. 31. 1971-75: Härö, 1976. 36 Incidence of Abortion TABLE 2 (continued) 32. 1976-79: Härö, 1980. 33. Reporting incomplete. 34. 1976-77: Blayo, 1979. 35. 1978-79; France, 1980. 36. Includes East Berlin. 37. 1950-52: Mehlan, 1958. 38. 1953-62: Mehlan, 1965. 39. 1963-72: District Rostock only. with about 5 percent of the female population aged 15-44, and 6 percent of the live births of the German Democratic Republic. Mehlan, 1974. 40. German Federal Republic, 19808, p. 194. 41. 1973-76: German Democratic Republic, 1977. 42. Includes West Berlin. 43. 1950-30 June 1976: Applications approved. 44. 1950-54: Heiss, 1967, pp. 70-71. 45. 1968-69: Wolff, 1977. 46. 1970-79: German Federal Republic, 1980b. 47. 1 July 1976-1979: Abortions performed. 48. Hong Kong, 1980. 49. 1950-56: Hirschler, 1961. 50. 1957-75: Hungary, 1977. 51. 1976-77: Hungary, 1979a. 52. 1978-79: Response to questionnaire. 53. Iceland, 1979. 54. Abortions performed under the National Family Planning Program. 55. Fiscal years ending 31 March. 56. 1972/78: India, 1980. 57. Ramabhadran, 1980. 58. Italy, 1980. 59. 1950-59: Muramatsu, 1967, p. 68. 60. 1960-79: Japan, 1980. 61. 1955-75: Estimates of abortions to married women. 62. 1955-70: Muramatsu, 1973. 63. Medium estimate. Muramatsu, 1978. 64. Estimates based on reports from the quasi-legal abortion clinics administered by Stimezo, supplemented by information obtained from hospitals. Ketting, 1980. 65. 1977-79: Including "menstrual regulation" procedures. 66. Mostly Italy and Spain. 67. 1960-62 and 1965-67: Annual averages, corrected for incomplete reporting. Erhardt, 1970. 68. July-December: Pakter, 1971. 69. 1971-74: Pakter, 1975. 70. 1975-77: New York City, 1978. 71. Including women of unknown residence. 72. 1976-77: Facer, 1978-79. 73. 1978/80: Notifications during fiscal years ending 31 March. New Zealand, 1980. 74. 1968-78: Applications approved. 75. 1968-76: Norway, 1978. 76. Abortions performed. 77. Includes abortions in hospitals and clinics. Excludes abortions in physicians' offices, believed to be numerous. 78. Poland, 1979. 79. Includes legal abortions and women admitted to hospitals for treatment of complications of spontaneous or illegally induced abortions. 80. 1959-73: Ceterchi, 1975, p. 2. 81. 1974-79: Romania, 1980. 82. United Kingdom, 1978a, supplemented by response to questionnaire. 83. United Kingdom, 1974a, vol. 2, p. 204, 1974b, 1978a, 1980c. 84. Including the private sector. Singapore, 1980. 85. 1939-50: Sweden, 1973. 86. 1951-79: Sweden, 1980. 87. 1966-72: Bchir, 1978, pp. 96-106. 88. 1973-79: Tunisia, 1979. 89. Unofficial estimates based on survey of hospitals. Tietze, 1970. 90. 1970-76: United States, 1980b. 91. 1973-79: Forrest, 1979; Henshaw, 1981. 92. Projection. 93. Estimates based on number of abortions reported to AGI and distribution by ethnic group reported by CDC. 94. FY 1977. In FY 1978 the number of Medicaid-funded abortions dropped to 193,800 (Gold, 1980). 95. Clinics 95 percent, physicians' offices 5 percent. 96. May include women admitted to hospitals for aftercare or the treatment of complications of spontaneous or illegally induced abortions. 97. 1960 and 1965: Abortion ratios per birth given in source; other entries derived. Serenko, 1969, pp. 34-35. 98. Average of minimum and maximum estimates (2.5 and 3.0 abortions per birth). 99. Abortion rate per 1,000 population given in source; other entries derived. Sokolova, 1970. 100. IPPF, 1974. 101. 1963-67: Survey of hospitals. Mojic, 1969. 102. Yugoslavia, 1975. |