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

Table 3 the ratio of abortion number to birth number in the whole country and three provinces during 2005–2016

	Nation	Jiangsu	Hubei	Yunnan
2005	0.62	1.36	0.59	0.48
2006	0.62	1.35	0.57	0.49
2007	0.61	1.25	0.57	0.53
2008	0.69	1.22	0.59	0.72
2009	0.44	0.68	0.41	0.38
2010	0.45	0.75	0.38	0.36
2011	0.46	0.74	0.39	0.41
2012	0.43	0.72	0.35	0.37
2013	0.41	0.74	0.35	0.36
2014	0.63	1.14	0.45	0.69
2015	0.68	1.10	0.53	0.83
2016	0.52	0.88	0.51	0.65

Data sources: the ratio of abortion number to birth number was calculated by dividing the abortion number with birth number of the same year. Both the numbers of abortion and birth come from “China Health Statistical Yearbook 2006-2012” and “China Health and Family Planning Statistical Yearbook 2013-2017”.

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