Historical abortion statistics, Tianjin (PR China)

Abortion statistics and other data--Johnston`s Archive

Historical abortion statistics, Tianjin (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
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972	70,000
1973	134,900
1974	97,700
1975	97,600
1976	90,100
1977	93,700
1978	111,000
1979	108,200
1980	99,600
1981	136,100
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988	134,200	36,200	269.7	21.24
1989
1990	138,000	48,300	350.0	25.93
1991	108,500	39,100	360.4	26.49
1992	115,000	28,800	250.4	20.03
1993
1994	102,700	20,500	199.6	16.64
1995
1996	95,700	20,100	210.0	17.36
1997
1998	62,100
1999
2000	77,300
2001	76,100
2002	75,400	113,400	1,504.0	60.06
2003	72,200	111,086	1,538.6	60.61
2004	74,900	111,114	1,483.5	59.73
2005	77,600	88,119	1,135.6	53.17
2006	82,500	121,500	1,472.7	59.56
2007	88,200	129,312	1,466.1	59.45
2008	95,600	138,266	1,446.3	59.12
2009	101,900	107,597	1,055.9	51.36
2010	106,300	111,451	1,048.5	51.18
2011	115,100	115,234	1,001.2	50.03
2012	120,600	109,699	909.6	47.63
2013	116,700	117,089	1,003.3	50.08
2014	117,000	130,155	1,112.4	52.66
2015	84,000	120,707	1,437.0	58.97
2016	106,300	111,100	1,045.2	51.10
2017	107,900	103,133	955.8	48.87
2018	92,200	96,614	1,047.9	51.17
2019	93,200	91,418	980.9	49.52
2020	83,100
2021	72,800
2022	64,700
2023	61,000
2024	68,100
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.

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