Historical abortion statistics, Portugal

Abortion statistics and other data--Johnston`s Archive

Historical abortion statistics, Portugal

compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated 8 July 2023

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

Live births.
Abortions, reported includes legal reported induced abortions.
Abortions (AWR) are combined reported and estimated abortion occurrences from the Abortion Worldwide Report and working papers.
Abortions, residents, in country only includes reported abortions obtained within the country by residents only.
Abortions, residents, obtained abroad includes reported abortions by country residents obtained in other countries.
Abortions, residents, total includes reported abortions by residents, obtained both within the country and abroad.
Fetal deaths generally includes fetal deaths or stillbirths of at least 20 weeks` gestation.
Miscarriages generally includes spontaneous fetal losses/ abortions, fetal deaths, or stillbirths, regardless of gestation period.
Abortion ratio is abortions per 1000 live births.
Abortion % is abortions as percentage of pregnancies (excluding fetal deaths/miscarriages).
Abortion rate, residents is abortions by residency per 1000 women of childbearing age.
Abortion rate, occurrences (AWR) is abortion occurrences from Abortion Worldwide Report figures per 1000 women ages 15-39.

Portugal regional level data also available here.

year	live births	abortions, reported	abortions (AWR)	abortions, residents, in country only	abortions, residents, obtained abroad	abortions, residents, total	abortions, occurrences by non-residents	abortions, illegal	miscarriages	fetal deaths	abortion ratio		abortion %		abortion rate, residents	abortion rate, occurences (AWR)
year	live births	abortions, reported	abortions (AWR)	abortions, residents, in country only	abortions, residents, obtained abroad	abortions, residents, total	abortions, occurrences by non-residents	abortions, illegal	miscarriages	fetal deaths	residents, in/out of country	all in country	residents, in/out of country	all in country	abortion rate, residents	abortion rate, occurences (AWR)
1948	220,981
1949	212,260
1950	205,163
1951	207,870
1952	211,213
1953	202,135
1954	197,536
1955	209,790
1956	202,667
1957	211,494
1958	212,467
1959	213,062
1960	213,895									7,705
1961	217,516									5,857
1962	220,200									5,794
1963	212,152									5,265
1964	217,136									5,050
1965	210,299									6,327
1966	206,940									4,773
1967	202,061									4,686
1968	194,962									4,397
1969	189,739									4,349
1970	172,891									4,963
1971	181,243									4,190
1972	174,685				18	18				3,678	0.10		0.01
1973	172,324				27	27				3,319	0.16		0.02
1974	171,979				59	59				2,963	0.34		0.03
1975	179,648				60	60				2,781	0.33		0.03
1976	186,712				38	38				2,735	0.20		0.02
1977	181,064				29	29				2,682	0.16		0.02
1978	167,467				28	28				2,319	0.17		0.02
1979	160,311				36	36				2,156	0.22		0.02
1980	158,352				41	41				2,210	0.26		0.03
1981	152,102				36	36				1,946	0.24		0.02
1982	151,029				50	50				1,876	0.33		0.03
1983	144,327				36	36				1,767	0.25		0.02
1984	142,805	(40)	(40)	(40)	35	75				1,646	0.53	0.28	0.05	0.03
1985	130,492	(60)	(60)	(60)	34	94				1,497	0.72	0.46	0.07	0.05
1986	126,748	(60)	(60)	(60)	49	109				1,331	0.86	0.47	0.09	0.05
1987	123,218	(60)	(60)	(60)		60				1,215	0.49	0.49	0.05	0.05
1988	122,121	(60)	(60)	(60)		60				1,149	0.49	0.49	0.05	0.05
1989	118,560	(60)	(60)	(60)		60				1,154	0.51	0.51	0.05	0.05
1990	116,383	(60)	(60)	(60)		60				997	0.52	0.52	0.05	0.05		0.03
1991	116,415		(100)		700	700				957	6.0		0.60			0.05
1992	115,018		(200)		600	600				889	5.2		0.52			0.11
1993	114,030	227	493	(227)	400	627		266		868	5.5	2.0	0.55	0.20		0.26
1994	109,210	295	550	(295)	400	695		255		808	6.4	2.7	0.63	0.27		0.29
1995	107,184	268	436	(268)	300	568		168		715	5.3	2.5	0.53	0.25		0.23
1996	110,363	281	466	(281)	300	581		185		747	5.3	2.5	0.52	0.25		0.24
1997	111,382	310	504	(310)	300	610		194		691	5.5	2.8	0.54	0.28		0.26
1998	113,510	401	568	(401)	36	437		167		686	3.8	3.5	0.38	0.35		0.30
1999	116,002	491	660	(491)	34	525		169		670	4.5	4.2	0.45	0.42		0.34
2000	118,551	576	576	(576)	33	609				692	5.1	4.9	0.51	0.48		0.30
2001	112,774	675	675	(675)	22	697				659	6.2	6.0	0.61	0.59		0.35
2002	114,383	828	1,018	(828)	21	849		190	176	587	7.4	7.2	0.74	0.72		0.53
2003	112,515	721	721	(721)	23	744				506	6.6	6.4	0.66	0.64		0.38
2004	109,298	834	834	(834)	11	845				423	7.7	7.6	0.77	0.76		0.44
2005	109,399	906	906	(906)	19	925				434	8.5	8.3	0.84	0.82		0.48
2006	105,351	1,215	1,215	(1,215)	10	1,225				417	11.6	11.5	1.15	1.14		0.65
2007	102,492	7,213	7,213	(7,213)	10	7,223				377	70.5	70.4	6.58	6.57		3.89
2008	104,594	18,610	18,610	18,014	6	18,020	2,600			341	172.3	177.9	14.70	15.11		10.12
2009	99,491	19,848	19,848	19,222	11	19,233				379	193.3	199.5	16.20	16.63		10.90
2010	101,320	20,137	20,137	18,911	14	18,925				332	186.8	198.7	15.74	16.58		11.19
2011	96,856	20,480	20,480	19,802	10	19,812				294	204.6	211.4	16.98	17.45		11.57
2012	89,841	19,156	19,156	18,408	8	18,416				327	205.0	213.2	17.01	17.57		11.05
2013	82,787	18,281	18,281	17,414	17	17,431				245	210.6	220.8	17.39	18.09		10.79
2014	85,363	16,762	16,762	16,039	11	16,050				299	188.0	196.4	15.83	16.41		10.12
2015	85,500	16,652	16,652	15,873	5	15,878				297	185.7	194.8	15.66	16.30		10.26
2016	87,126	15,959	15,959	(15,300)	6	(15,306)				304	175.7	183.2	14.94	15.48		10.05
2017	86,154	15,518	15,518	(14,800)	2	(14,806)				283	171.9	180.1	14.67	15.26		9.98
2018	87,368	15,015	15,015	14,336	4	14,340				320	164.1	171.9	14.10	14.67		9.84
2019	87,019	15,358	15,358	14,696	5	14,701				293	168.9	176.5	14.45	15.00		10.23
2020	84,558	14,369	14,369	13,777	5	13,782				282	163.0	169.9	14.01	14.52		9.73
2021	79,582	13,961	13,961	11,640		11,640				175	146.3	175.4	12.76	14.92		9.60
2022			(13,500)													(9.4)
year	live births	abortions, reported	abortions (AWR)	abortions, residents, in country only	abortions, residents, obtained abroad	abortions, residents, total	abortions, occurrences by non-residents	abortions, illegal	miscarriages	fetal deaths	abortion ratio		abortion %		abortion rate, residents	abortion rate, occurences (AWR)
year	live births	abortions, reported	abortions (AWR)	abortions, residents, in country only	abortions, residents, obtained abroad	abortions, residents, total	abortions, occurrences by non-residents	abortions, illegal	miscarriages	fetal deaths	residents, in/out of country	all in country	residents, in/out of country	all in country	abortion rate, residents	abortion rate, occurences (AWR)

Notes:

Parenthetical figures are estimates, some of which are derived from reported data.
Abortion ratios, percentages, and rates may be based on a mix of data from different sources and thus may not represent a consistent time series.

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