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The following lists include countries by total reported abortions, annual abortions and rates according to reports from governments and statisticians.

The CDC or Guttmacher estimates do not account for medical abortions outside a clinic. Some analysts have estimated that the cumulative number of abortions in the United States may have reached a hundred million and that up to two million abortions occur annually. The Soviet Union had more than 200 million reported abortions throughout its history according to the Johnstons Archive. Since legalization in 1967, there have been 9,331,978 abortions in the United Kingdom according to government reports collected by the Johnstons Archive.

The Guttmacher study numbers used in the table below are estimates based on statistical models and are not actual reported numbers.

International Abortion Rate Report

Country Rate per

1,000 women
per year

Number of abortions
per year 		Year Age range
 Greenland 84.7 870 2022 17–64
 Vietnam 64.0 1,630,000 2019 15–49
 Madagascar 60.0 376,000 2019 15–49
 Guinea-Bissau 59.0 26,600 2019 15–49
 Cuba 55.0 147,000 2019 15–49
 Cape Verde 49.0 7,100 2019 15–49
 India 48.0 16,600,000 2019 15–49
 Trinidad and Tobago 48.0 17,100 2019 15–49
 Cambodia 45.0 195,000 2019 15–49
 Sierra Leone 45.0 82,600 2019 15–49
 Barbados 45.0 3,000 2019 15–49
 Congo 44.0 54,700 2019 15–49
 Pakistan 43.0 2,240,000 2019 15–49
 Kenya 43.0 551,000 2019 15–49
 Uganda 43.0 418,000 2019 15–49
 Samoa 43.0 1,800 2019 15–49
 Peru 42.0 353,000 2019 15–49
 Liberia 42.0 47,600 2019 15–49
 Maldives 42.0 4,700 2019 15–49
   Nepal 41.0 348,000 2019 15–49
 Gabon 41.0 21,100 2019 15–49
 Mozambique 40.0 277,000 2019 15–49
 Vanuatu 39.0 2,800 2019 15–49
 Sao Tome and Principe 39.0 1,900 2019 15–49
 Tanzania 38.0 482,000 2019 15–49
 Haiti 38.0 111,000 2019 15–49
 Bolivia 38.0 108,000 2019 15–49
 Jamaica 38.0 29,800 2019 15–49
 Ghana 37.0 266,000 2019 15–49
 Dominican Republic 37.0 101,000 2019 15–49
 Saint Lucia 37.0 1,900 2019 15–49
 Philippines 36.0 973,000 2019 15–49
 Papua New Guinea 36.0 77,200 2019 15–49
 Guyana 36.0 7,300 2019 15–49
 Bangladesh 35.0 1,580,000 2019 15–49
 Ivory Coast 35.0 207,000 2019 15–49
 Zambia 35.0 140,000 2019 15–49
 Cameroon 34.0 201,000 2019 15–49
 Laos 34.0 64,100 2019 15–49
 Paraguay 34.0 60,900 2019 15–49
 East Timor 34.0 10,100 2019 15–49
 Nigeria 33.0 2,000,000 2020
 DR Congo 33.0 593,000 2019 15–49
 Argentina 33.0 368,000 2019 15–49
 Angola 33.0 229,000 2019 15–49
 Brazil 32.0 1,830,000 2019 15–49
 Benin 32.0 84,300 2019 15–49
 Togo 32.0 60,300 2019 15–49
 Bhutan 32.0 6,400 2019 15–49
 Solomon Islands 32.0 4,900 2019 15–49
 Belize 32.0 3,300 2019 15–49
 Mexico 31.0 1,040,000 2019 15–49
 Malawi 31.0 134,000 2019 15–49
 Kyrgyzstan 31.0 49,500 2019 15–49
 Puerto Rico 31.0 23,100 2019 15–49
 Botswana 31.0 18,600 2019 15–49
 Comoros 31.0 6,100 2019 15–49
 Suriname 31.0 4,500 2019 15–49
 South Africa 30.0 461,000 2019 15–49
 Burkina Faso 30.0 136,000 2019 15–49
 Panama 30.0 31,200 2019 15–49
 Somalia 29.0 93,200 2019 15–49
 Namibia 29.0 18,600 2019 15–49
 Eswatini 29.0 8,800 2019 15–49
 French Guiana 29.0 2,100 2019 15–49
 China 28.0 9,700,000 2021
 Sri Lanka 28.0 149,000 2019 15–49
 Ecuador 28.0 123,000 2019 15–49
 Rwanda 28.0 84,300 2019 15–49
 Colombia 27.0 360,000 2019 15–49
 Central African Republic 27.0 28,500 2019 15–49
 Myanmar 26.0 387,000 2019 15–49
 Guinea 26.0 77,400 2019 15–49
 Burundi 26.0 65,000 2019 15–49
 Tajikistan 26.0 58,100 2019 15–49
 Indonesia 25.0 1,770,000 2019 15–49
 Thailand 25.0 437,000 2019 15–49
 South Sudan 25.0 63,600 2019 15–49
 Tonga 25.0 620 2019 15–49
 Ethiopia 24.0 632,000 2019 15–49
 El Salvador 24.0 43,300 2019 15–49
 Uzbekistan 23.0 198,000 2019 15–49
 Mali 23.0 92,600 2019 15–49
 Lesotho 23.0 12,800 2019 15–49
 Egypt 23.0 1,050,000 2015 15–44
 South Korea 21.0 50,000 2019 15–44
 Honduras 21.0 53,000 2019 15–49
 Costa Rica 21.0 27,500 2019 15–49
 Mongolia 21.0 17,400 2019 15–49
 Eritrea 21.0 16,500 2019 15–49
 Djibouti 21.0 5,100 2019 15–49
 United Kingdom 20.6 252,122 2022 15–44
 Kazakhstan 20.1 71,442 2022
 Guatemala 19.0 85,400 2019 15–49
 Turkmenistan 19.0 28,900 2019 15–49
 Zimbabwe 18.0 67,300 2019 15–49
 Moldova 18.0 19,400 2019 15–49
 Taiwan 17.0 93,211 2007 15–44
 Chad 17.0 58,400 2019 15–49
 Sweden 18.0 35,550 2023 15–44
 Mauritania 17.0 17,800 2019 15–49
 Australia 16.0 93,800 2019 15–49
 Gambia 16.0 8,800 2019 15–49
 Georgia 15.7 35,401 2022 15–44
 France 15.7 242,997 2022 15–49
 Niger 15.0 69,000 2019 15–49
 Senegal 15.0 57,900 2019 15–49
 Greece 15.0 34,600 2019 15–49
 United States 14.4 930,160 2020 15–44
 Nicaragua 14.0 26,800 2019 15–49
 North Macedonia 14.0 7,300 2019 15–49
 Russia 13.1 553,500 2020
 Iceland 13.0 990 2019 15–49
 Armenia 12.8 10,718 2020
 Canada 12.0 97,500 2019 15–49
 New Zealand 12.0 13,100 2019 15–49
 Denmark 12.0 14,600 2019 15–49
 Bulgaria 11.9 19,328 2020
 Azerbaijan 11.8 34,712 2020
 Belarus 11.4 16,696 2022
 Norway 11.0 13,100 2019 15–49
 Uruguay 11.0 9,500 2019 15–49
 Bosnia and Herzegovina 11.0 8,500 2019 15–49
 Iran 10.7 450,000 2021
 Estonia 10.3 3,741 2019
 Poland 10.0 93,000 2019 15–49
 Hungary 9.8 23,901 2020
 Israel 8.4 17,582 2019 15–49
 Belgium 8.0 19,500 2019 15–49
 Spain 7.5 88,269 2020
 Chile 7.0 33,000 2019
 Netherlands 7.0 26,500 2019 15–49
 Romania 6.7 31,889 2020
 Finland 6.5 8,322 2020
 Czech Republic 6.4 16,886 2020
 Latvia 6.4 2,848 2020
 Slovenia 6.1 2,945 2020
 Ukraine 6.0 64,893 2020
 Montenegro 6.0 860 2019 15–49
 Portugal 5.6 14,075 2020
 Germany 5.4 99,948 2020
 Luxembourg 5.2 559 2022
 Japan 5.1 122,725 2022
  Switzerland 5.1 10,775 2020
 Singapore 5.0 7,400 2019 15–49
 Italy 4.9 65,757 2020
 Serbia 4.8 8,005 2020
 Slovakia 4.4 6,180 2020
 Lithuania 4.3 2,794 2020
 Turkey 2.7 43,000 2021
 Croatia 2.7 2,594 2020
 Austria 1.3 1,800 2021
 Albania 1.2 873 2020
 Algeria 0.4 8,000 2018

Aggregate data

Country Total Reported
 China 336,000,000+
 India 100,000,000+
 United States 62,000,000+

See also

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