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Table 2 National abortion rate for reproductive age women (15–49) during 2005–2016 (‰)

From: Achieving SDG related sexual and reproductive health targets in China: what are appropriate indicators and how we interpret them?

Year

Abortion Numbers

Number of reproductive age women

Abortion rate(‰)

2005

7,105,995

351,623,083

20.21

2006

7,308,615

362,650,496

20.15

2007

7,632,539

360,900,000

21.15

2008

9,173,101

360,217,587

25.47

2009

6,111,375

363,526,919

16.81

2010

6,361,539

376,057,537

16.92

2011

6,631,310

382,937,647

17.32

2012

6,690,027

381,523,466

17.54

2013

6,237,177

375,750,608

16.6

2014

9,621,995

370,721,411

25.95

2015

9,851,961

365,669,032

26.94

2016

9,644,724

342,898,053

28.13

  1. Data sources: the abortion rates in this table were calculated by dividing abortion numbers with the number of reproductive age women of the same year. Abortion numbers come from “China Health Statistical Yearbook 2006-2012” and “China Health and Family Planning Statistical Yearbook 2013-2017”, and number of reproductive age women come from “China Statistical Yearbook 2008-2017”.