Press Number of abortions up 1.9% in the 2nd quarter of 2016

Press release No. 317 of 12 September 2016

WIESBADEN – In the second quarter of 2016, just under 25,000 abortions were reported in Germany. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that this was an increase of 1.9% compared with the same period a year earlier.

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

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