Press Number of abortions in the 3rd quarter of 2018 down 1.8% on a year earlier

Press release No. 494 of 14 December 2018

WIESBADEN – In the third quarter of 2018, the number of abortions fell by 1.8% on the same period a year earlier. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that roughly 24,200 abortions were recorded in Germany in the third quarter of 2018.

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

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