Historical abortion statistics, Qinghai (PR China)

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Historical abortion statistics, Qinghai (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 %
year	live births	all to residents	all to residents	all to residents
1956	48,900
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965	112,300
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972	120,800
1973	121,700
1974	113,400
1975	107,800
1976	100,100
1977	98,200
1978	95,400
1979	91,000
1980	83,900
1981	79,600
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988	83,600	5,900	70.6	6.59
1989
1990	109,000	29,400	269.7	21.24
1991	106,100	25,500	240.3	19.38
1992	103,900	17,700	170.4	14.56
1993
1994	104,600	16,700	159.7	13.77
1995
1996	106,800	8,500	79.6	7.37
1997
1998	106,900
1999
2000	99,500
2001	99,700
2002	95,500	22,122	231.6	18.81
2003	90,500	26,032	287.6	22.34
2004	88,000	22,059	250.7	20.04
2005	85,300	21,031	246.6	19.78
2006	83,500	21,080	252.5	20.16
2007	82,400	21,265	258.1	20.51
2008	80,300	20,108	250.4	20.03
2009	80,800	9,810	121.4	10.83
2010	84,100	9,500	113.0	10.15
2011	82,000	12,660	154.4	13.37
2012	81,700	10,637	130.2	11.52
2013	80,900	14,458	178.7	15.16
2014	84,500	28,374	335.8	25.14
2015	84,900	31,971	376.6	27.36
2016	85,600	37,777	441.3	30.62
2017	84,500	30,554	361.6	26.56
2018	84,000	36,722	437.2	30.42
2019	80,600	34,651	429.9	30.07
2020	67,800
2021	66,600
2022	63,100
2023	54,900
2024	60,000
2025
year	live births	abortions	abortion ratio	abortion %
year	live births	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:

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