Abortion statistics and other data--Johnston`s Archive
Historical abortion statistics, Jilin (PR China)
compiled by Wm. Robert Johnston
last updated 16 July 2026
Definition of table data (see notes after table for additional information):
- Abortions, all to residents include all abortions obtained by prefecture residents.
- Abortion ratio is abortions per 1000 live births.
- Abortion % is abortions as percentage of pregnancies (excluding fetal deaths/miscarriages).
| year | live births | abortions | abortion ratio | abortion % |
|---|
| all to residents | all to residents | all to residents |
|---|
| 1956 | 402,000 | | | |
| 1957 | | | | |
| 1958 | | | | |
| 1959 | | | | |
| 1960 | | | | |
| 1961 | | | | |
| 1962 | | | | |
| 1963 | | | | |
| 1964 | | | | |
| 1965 | 663,800 | 33,000 | 49.7 | 4.74 |
| 1966 | | | | |
| 1967 | | | | |
| 1968 | | | | |
| 1969 | | | | |
| 1970 | | | | |
| 1971 | | | | |
| 1972 | 706,400 | | | |
| 1973 | 602,100 | | | |
| 1974 | 484,300 | | | |
| 1975 | 465,500 | | | |
| 1976 | 447,800 | | | |
| 1977 | 452,300 | | | |
| 1978 | 493,500 | | | |
| 1979 | 423,800 | | | |
| 1980 | 349,500 | | | |
| 1981 | 394,200 | | | |
| 1982 | | | | |
| 1983 | | | | |
| 1984 | | | | |
| 1985 | | | | |
| 1986 | | | | |
| 1987 | | | | |
| 1988 | 435,400 | 57,000 | 130.9 | 11.58 |
| 1989 | | | | |
| 1990 | 483,900 | 97,000 | 200.5 | 16.70 |
| 1991 | 428,800 | 94,000 | 219.2 | 17.98 |
| 1992 | 398,500 | 159,000 | 399.0 | 28.52 |
| 1993 | | | | |
| 1994 | 363,200 | 73,000 | 201.0 | 16.74 |
| 1995 | | | | |
| 1996 | 327,000 | 33,000 | 100.9 | 9.17 |
| 1997 | | | | |
| 1998 | 312,300 | | | |
| 1999 | | | | |
| 2000 | 276,500 | | | |
| 2001 | 235,700 | | | |
| 2002 | 224,000 | 98,086 | 437.9 | 30.45 |
| 2003 | 196,000 | 118,588 | 605.0 | 37.70 |
| 2004 | 200,200 | 135,324 | 675.9 | 40.33 |
| 2005 | 214,300 | 124,905 | 582.9 | 36.82 |
| 2006 | 208,900 | 143,790 | 688.3 | 40.77 |
| 2007 | 206,100 | 150,166 | 728.6 | 42.15 |
| 2008 | 181,800 | 151,415 | 832.9 | 45.44 |
| 2009 | 183,300 | 97,322 | 530.9 | 34.68 |
| 2010 | 217,300 | 100,084 | 460.6 | 31.53 |
| 2011 | 177,900 | 102,510 | 576.2 | 36.56 |
| 2012 | 154,600 | 108,193 | 699.8 | 41.17 |
| 2013 | 143,000 | 104,295 | 729.3 | 42.17 |
| 2014 | 174,900 | 153,089 | 875.3 | 46.68 |
| 2015 | 153,400 | 147,823 | 963.6 | 49.07 |
| 2016 | 142,500 | 139,837 | 981.3 | 49.53 |
| 2017 | 170,800 | 128,676 | 753.4 | 42.97 |
| 2018 | 164,400 | 119,752 | 728.4 | 42.14 |
| 2019 | 148,100 | 114,710 | 774.5 | 43.65 |
| 2020 | 116,100 | | | |
| 2021 | 111,600 | | | |
| 2022 | 101,400 | | | |
| 2023 | 87,900 | | | |
| 2024 | 96,600 | | | |
| 2025 | | | | |
| year | live births | abortions | abortion ratio | abortion % |
|---|
| all to residents | all to residents | all to residents |
|---|
Notes:
- Live births are estimated from reported populations and raw birth rates.
- Abortion data are generally estimated from reported abortion ratios and estimated live births and may be incomplete.
Sources:
- China Training Center, Reproductive Health and Family Care, 2011, "Total national family planning procedures performed (1971-2009)," CTC, on line [http://www.ctc-health.org.cn/file/2011shoushu.pdf].
- GSWS (PRC), on line [http://www.gsws.gov.cn/...3/.../20100316201139457.xls]
- Ministry of Health (PRC), on line [http://www.moh.gov.cn/publicfiles/business/htmlfiles/zwgkzt/ptjnj/year2010/2010t7/sheet007.htm]
- Ministry of Health (PRC), on line [http://www.moh.gov.cn/open/statistics/year2007/p196.htm]
- Ministry of Health (PRC), on line [http://www.moh.gov.cn/open/statistics/year2006/p204.htm]
- Ministry of Health (PRC), on line [http://www.moh.gov.cn/open/statistics/on_net_file_2005/s140.htm]
- Ministry of Health (PRC), on line [http://www.moh.gov.cn/open/statistics/year2004/p168.htm]
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- Office of Technology Assessment, 1982, World Population and Fertility Planning Technologies: The Next 20 Years, US GPO (Washington, DC), on line at FAS [http://www.fas.org/ota/reports/8235.pdf].
- Scharping, Thomas, 2003, Birth Control in China 1949-2000: Population Policy and Demographic Development, RoutledgeCurzon (London, UK).
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- Zhou, Viola, Nov. 2015, "Abortion in China: Policy and data," The Data and News Society, on line [https://dnnsociety.org/2015/11/29/abortion_in_china/].
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- [https://data.stats.gov.cn/english/easyquery.htm?cn=E0103].
- [https://www.stats.gov.cn/sj/ndsj/2025/indexeh.htm].
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- [https://www.legrandsoir.info/IMG/pdf/2013-2019_tableaux.pdf].
- (incomplete)
© 2026 by Wm. Robert Johnston.
Last modified 16 July 2026.
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