Press Number of abortions up 1.3% in the 1st quarter of 2017

Press release No. 193 of 12 June 2017

WIESBADEN – In the first quarter of 2017, approximately 26,600 abortions were reported in Germany. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was an increase of 1.3% compared with the same period a year earlier.

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

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