Press release No. 070 of 27 February 2019
WIESBADEN – In 2018, the number of abortions decreased by 0.2% compared with the previous year. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that approximately 101,000 abortions were reported in Germany in 2018.
Nearly three quarters (72%) of the women who had an abortion in 2018 were aged between 18 and 34, 17% between 35 and 39 years. Roughly 8% of the women were 40 years or older. The proportion of women aged under 18 was 3%. Approximately 40% of the women who had an abortion were women with no prior live births.
Basic data and long time series are available in tables Statistics of abortions (23311) in the GENESIS-Online database.
