LATEST COMPARATIVE ABORTION RATES IN EUROPE 2010

The Council of Europe's final demographic report for 2005, (published June 2006) was its last. The Council of Europe reports and their comprehensive demographic data were excellent. An abortion rate over 100% of live-births means more abortions than births.

To complement the Council of Europe abortion data, the figures below are reinforced and updated from William Robert Johnston’s painstaking research. Johnston is assistant professor of surgery at Minnesota Medical School and studies world data on abortion. The last update of Johnston’s website www.johnstonsarchive.net was May 2010

Country Year Number of

Births

Number of

Abortions

Abortions as a % of

Births

Population(Millions)

AbortionsPer

Million

Total Fertility Rate***

Albania 2008 36251 8335 22.99 3.1m 2689 1.3Austria* 2000 78268 2380 3.06 8.2m 280 1.4Belgium 2007 120663 18884 15.65 10.4m 1851 1.37Bulgaria 2008 77712 36595 47.08 7.5m 4879 1.37Croatia** 2008 43753 8925 20.40 7.8m 1190 1.29Cyprus 2007 8575 8 0.09 0.7m 11 1.47

Czech Rep 2008 119570 22508 18.82 10.2m 2207 1.33Denmark 2006 64984 15061 23.17 5.4m 2830 1.83Estonia 2008 16028 8420 52.53 1.3m 12329 1.55Finland 2008 59530 10423 17.51 5.3m 2004 1.84France 2007 785985 213382 27.15 60.5m 3527 2.01

Germany 2008 682514 110694 16.22 82.5m 1342 1.39Greece 2005 107543 16495 15.34 11.1m 9688 1.39

Hungary 2008 99149 44089 44.47 10.1m 4362 1.34Iceland 2006 4821 855 18.70 0.3m 1980 2.04

Ireland** 2009 74258 4422 5.95 4.5m 983 2.1Italy 2008 576659 131406 21.05 58.5m 2346 1.32

Latvia 2009 23824 10425 43.74 2.3m 4532 1.35Lithuania 2008 35065 9031 25.76 3.4m 2538 1.31Moldova 2008 39018 15900 40.75 3.6m 4376 1.25Holland 2007 181335 28330 15.38% 16.3m 1748 1.71Malta** 2008 4199 38 .90 0.4m 18 1.41Norway 2008 60497 15968 26,38 4.6m 3471 1.83Poland 2007 397874 338 0.09% 38.2m 8.6 1.27

Portugal 2008 104475 19572 18.69 10.5m 86 1.41Romania 2006 221900 127010 57.54 21.1m 8030 1.35Russ. Fed 2006 1.714m 1.3856m 80.84 143.5m 9656 1.35

Slovak Rep

2008 57360 18452 32.17 5.4m 3417 1.24

Slovenia 2008 21757 4916 22.59 2.9m 1695 1.31Spain 2008 518967 115812 22.31 44.1m 2626 1.38

Sweden 2008 109301 38053 34.81 9.0m 4228 1.85Switzerlan

d2008 76691 10848 14.15 7.4m 1466 1.42

Macedonia

2008 22945 5900 25.71 2.01m 2935 1.52

Turkey 2008 1,318m 274187 20.50 71.6m 3774 2.43Ukraine 2008 510589 143499 28.10 47.1m 3047 1.20

UK 2008 794383 210529 26.50 60.6m 3474 1.63Armenia 2008 41185 12469 30.28 3.2m 3047 1.39Georgia 2008 56565 22062 39.00 4.3m 5131 1.43

USA 2007 4.138m 1.296m 29.15% 296.4m 4372 2.10China 2007 16.9m 7.633m 45.16 1303.7m 5855 1.77India 2004 26.1m 6.993m 26.8 1097.0m 6375 2.76

Japan 2007 1.099m 256672 23.35 127.8m 2008 1.28Canada 2006 350181 91377 26.09 33.30m 2774

Sources : Recent Demographic Developments In Europe 2005 (Published by the Council of Europe June 2006) See http://www.coe.int/populationAbortion Statistics and Other Data (William Robert Johnston) For updates see http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/index.html

* The figures relating to Austria are only for abortions in public hospitals. In general all abortion figures may understate and should be accepted cautiously. The figures for Ireland are those taking place in England & Wales. **In general, Mr. Johnston has attempted to get nations’ true abortion figures by trying to establish citizens’ abortions in other countries. That is why abortions are shown for some countries which do not permit abortion e.g. Ireland, Malta and Cyprus.. ***The Total Fertility rate (TFR), measures the annual births per 1,000 women of reproductive age. 2.1 children per woman is considered to be the number of births required to replace the population. Most of Europe is well below replacement level.