Press Number of abortions down 0.5% in 2016

Press release No. 083 of 9 March 2017

WIESBADEN – In 2016, the number of abortions decreased by 0.5% compared with the previous year. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that approximately 98,700 abortions were reported in Germany in 2016.

Basic data and long time series are available in tables Statistics of abortions (23311) in the GENESIS-Online database.

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