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

• Live births
• Abortions, reported includes official data from the national statistics office with some data from provincial agencies.
• Abortions (AWR) are combined reported and estimated abortion occurrences from the Abortion Worldwide Report working papers.
• Miscarriages may include stillbirths and/or spontaneous early miscarriages.
• 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.

Notes:

• Official data may be incomplete.
• Parenthetical figures are estimates, some of which are derived from reported data.
• Some miscarriage data includes only stillbirths, some data includes known early miscarriages, thus this series is not a consistent time series.
• Abortion rates may be based on a mix of national or provincial agency data and thus may not represent a consistent time series.

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