Abortion rates by country | ||
---|---|---|
Country | Number of abortions (year) | Percentage of population (%) |
Australia | 84,460 (2003, estimated) [6] | 0.43% [7] |
Canada | 105,154 (2002) [8] | 0.33% [9] |
Denmark | 15,567 (2003) [10] | 0.29% [11] |
France | 203,300 (2003) [12] | 0.34% [13] |
Germany | 129,650 (2004) [14] | 0.16% [15] |
Japan | 301,673 (2004) [16] | 0.24% [17] |
New Zealand | 18,211 (2004) [18] | 0.45% [19] |
Norway | 14,071 (2004) [20] | 0.31% [21] |
South Africa | 53,967 (2001) [22] | 0.12% [23] |
Sweden | 34,454 (2004) [24] | 0.38% [25] |
United Kingdom | 197,863 (2004) [26] [27] | 0.33% [28] |
United States | 1,293,000 (2002, estimated) [29] | 0.44% |
with the percentages given in this table (i know it isnt pasted very well but.. i have no idea how to edit well..), are they worked out as percentage of the nations population? Or is it a percentage of women who had abortions out of the total number of women who had abortions in the nation? Or is it the number of aborted babies as a percentage of the number of babies not aborted each yera in the nation? Forgive me if this is the stupidest question ever, but im not really sure which way to interprate the table.
This statistic is more useful than just giving the total population, but perhaps a better table would have both the percentage of all pregnancies that end in abortion and this as a percentage of women of childbearing age, usually taken as 15-44. If this information is available it would make a much more useful comparison. I'll search around, and would urge anyone who knows of such statistics to post links to allow others or you to find the information.
Spaully
00:10, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
Had a look at the information for the UK from 2003 abortion stats, and National Statistics population material.
For 2003 (closest year with complete info):
Abortions per woman of child bearing age (15-44): 17.5 per 1,000
Women in that group: 12,371,000
Percentage of total conceptions: 22.5%
(Unfortunately these statistics are not wholly accurate, presumably the abortion rate is the main factor in this - using these figures you calculate 216,000 abortions, where only 181,600 were performed.) I still feel however that this sort of information would be more useful. Spaully 00:38, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
[1] <-- Table 2 here is a good example of better statistics that could be shown - note 'Rate' = abortions per 1000 women 15-44; 'Ratio' = percentage of pregnancies aborted; 'Total abortion rate' = averange number of abortions per woman per lifetime. Spaully 00:56, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
Unfortunately, the currency of abortion statistics varies from country to country, which makes our job a lot harder, requiring us to find the national population for each year in question. Try finding a male-female breakdown for each relevant year and it's even harder. Nevermind finding an even more accurate population breakdown of females aged 15-44. This is what Google, a calculator, and rate calculation for dummies can accomplish (population is total female population):
Country | Number of abortions (year) | Female population (year) | Incidence per 1000 |
---|---|---|---|
Australia | 84,460 (2003, estimated) [2] | 10,009,827 (2003) [3] | 8.43 |
Canada | 105,154 (2002) [4] | 15,834,015 (2002) [5] | 6.64 |
Denmark | 15,567 (2003) [6] | 2,721,084 (2003) [7] | 5.72 |
France | 203,300 (2003) [8] | 30,788,805 (2003) [9] | 6.60 |
Germany | 129,650 (2004) [10] | 42,147,000 (2004) [11] | 3.07 |
Japan | 301,673 (2004) [12] | n/a | n/a |
New Zealand | 18,211 (2004) [13] | 2,064,700 (2004) [14] | 8.82 |
Norway | 14,071 (2004) [15] | 2,322,293 (2004) [16] | 6.05 |
South Africa | 53,967 (2001) [17] | 23,121,651 (2001) [18] | 2.33 |
Sweden | 34,454 (2004) [19] | 4,545,081 (2004) [20] | 7.58 |
United Kingdom | 197,863 (2004) [21] [22] | 30,563,000 (2004) [23] | 6.57 |
United States | 1,293,000 (2002, estimated) [24] | 146,708,000 (2002) [25] | 8.81 |
It's wrong, wrong, wrong, due to the lack of refinements for reproductive age and my absolutely abominable math. It was, essentially, just a test to try out a new table format, but it's better here than rotting on my test page. Anyone with better sources or a better head for numbers is invited to build upon it. BTW, the source link for Japan's population is dead, which is why there is no information. - Kyd 01:56, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
Country | Number of abortions (year) | Percentage of population (%) |
---|---|---|
Australia | 84,460 (2003, estimated) [26] | 0.43% [27] |
Canada | 105,154 (2002) [28] | 0.33% [29] |
Denmark | 15,567 (2003) [30] | 0.29% [31] |
France | 203,300 (2003) [32] | 0.34% [33] |
Germany | 129,650 (2004) [34] | 0.16% [35] |
Japan | 301,673 (2004) [36] | 0.24% [37] |
New Zealand | 18,211 (2004) [38] | 0.45% [39] |
Norway | 14,071 (2004) [40] | 0.31% [41] |
South Africa | 53,967 (2001) [42] | 0.12% [43] |
Sweden | 34,454 (2004) [44] | 0.38% [45] |
United Kingdom | 197,863 (2004) [46] [47] | 0.33% [48] |
United States | 1,293,000 (2002, estimated) [49] | 0.44% [50] |
Moving this in from the main article. Let's try to fix it. - Kyd 01:42, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Draft version of the "Compulsory & coerced abortion" section which would be slotted under "Social issues." Anyone have any suggestions or additional information? - Kyd 04:41, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
In the future, please place comments outside of the preview text, as it is confusing otherwise. Also, please remember to sign your comments with four tildes, ~~~~ Thanks. - Kyd 05:08, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
Okay, here's a question: should we include discussion of examples of compulsory pregnancy along with those of compulsory abortion? Romania immediately springs to mind. - Kyd 06:12, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
And forced pregnancy was explained as being a result of rape, IIRC. ____G_o_o_d____ 14:32, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
Abortion rates by country | ||
---|---|---|
Country | Number of abortions (year) | Percentage of population (%) |
Australia | 84,460 (2003, estimated) [6] | 0.43% [7] |
Canada | 105,154 (2002) [8] | 0.33% [9] |
Denmark | 15,567 (2003) [10] | 0.29% [11] |
France | 203,300 (2003) [12] | 0.34% [13] |
Germany | 129,650 (2004) [14] | 0.16% [15] |
Japan | 301,673 (2004) [16] | 0.24% [17] |
New Zealand | 18,211 (2004) [18] | 0.45% [19] |
Norway | 14,071 (2004) [20] | 0.31% [21] |
South Africa | 53,967 (2001) [22] | 0.12% [23] |
Sweden | 34,454 (2004) [24] | 0.38% [25] |
United Kingdom | 197,863 (2004) [26] [27] | 0.33% [28] |
United States | 1,293,000 (2002, estimated) [29] | 0.44% |
with the percentages given in this table (i know it isnt pasted very well but.. i have no idea how to edit well..), are they worked out as percentage of the nations population? Or is it a percentage of women who had abortions out of the total number of women who had abortions in the nation? Or is it the number of aborted babies as a percentage of the number of babies not aborted each yera in the nation? Forgive me if this is the stupidest question ever, but im not really sure which way to interprate the table.
This statistic is more useful than just giving the total population, but perhaps a better table would have both the percentage of all pregnancies that end in abortion and this as a percentage of women of childbearing age, usually taken as 15-44. If this information is available it would make a much more useful comparison. I'll search around, and would urge anyone who knows of such statistics to post links to allow others or you to find the information.
Spaully
00:10, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
Had a look at the information for the UK from 2003 abortion stats, and National Statistics population material.
For 2003 (closest year with complete info):
Abortions per woman of child bearing age (15-44): 17.5 per 1,000
Women in that group: 12,371,000
Percentage of total conceptions: 22.5%
(Unfortunately these statistics are not wholly accurate, presumably the abortion rate is the main factor in this - using these figures you calculate 216,000 abortions, where only 181,600 were performed.) I still feel however that this sort of information would be more useful. Spaully 00:38, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
[1] <-- Table 2 here is a good example of better statistics that could be shown - note 'Rate' = abortions per 1000 women 15-44; 'Ratio' = percentage of pregnancies aborted; 'Total abortion rate' = averange number of abortions per woman per lifetime. Spaully 00:56, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
Unfortunately, the currency of abortion statistics varies from country to country, which makes our job a lot harder, requiring us to find the national population for each year in question. Try finding a male-female breakdown for each relevant year and it's even harder. Nevermind finding an even more accurate population breakdown of females aged 15-44. This is what Google, a calculator, and rate calculation for dummies can accomplish (population is total female population):
Country | Number of abortions (year) | Female population (year) | Incidence per 1000 |
---|---|---|---|
Australia | 84,460 (2003, estimated) [2] | 10,009,827 (2003) [3] | 8.43 |
Canada | 105,154 (2002) [4] | 15,834,015 (2002) [5] | 6.64 |
Denmark | 15,567 (2003) [6] | 2,721,084 (2003) [7] | 5.72 |
France | 203,300 (2003) [8] | 30,788,805 (2003) [9] | 6.60 |
Germany | 129,650 (2004) [10] | 42,147,000 (2004) [11] | 3.07 |
Japan | 301,673 (2004) [12] | n/a | n/a |
New Zealand | 18,211 (2004) [13] | 2,064,700 (2004) [14] | 8.82 |
Norway | 14,071 (2004) [15] | 2,322,293 (2004) [16] | 6.05 |
South Africa | 53,967 (2001) [17] | 23,121,651 (2001) [18] | 2.33 |
Sweden | 34,454 (2004) [19] | 4,545,081 (2004) [20] | 7.58 |
United Kingdom | 197,863 (2004) [21] [22] | 30,563,000 (2004) [23] | 6.57 |
United States | 1,293,000 (2002, estimated) [24] | 146,708,000 (2002) [25] | 8.81 |
It's wrong, wrong, wrong, due to the lack of refinements for reproductive age and my absolutely abominable math. It was, essentially, just a test to try out a new table format, but it's better here than rotting on my test page. Anyone with better sources or a better head for numbers is invited to build upon it. BTW, the source link for Japan's population is dead, which is why there is no information. - Kyd 01:56, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
Country | Number of abortions (year) | Percentage of population (%) |
---|---|---|
Australia | 84,460 (2003, estimated) [26] | 0.43% [27] |
Canada | 105,154 (2002) [28] | 0.33% [29] |
Denmark | 15,567 (2003) [30] | 0.29% [31] |
France | 203,300 (2003) [32] | 0.34% [33] |
Germany | 129,650 (2004) [34] | 0.16% [35] |
Japan | 301,673 (2004) [36] | 0.24% [37] |
New Zealand | 18,211 (2004) [38] | 0.45% [39] |
Norway | 14,071 (2004) [40] | 0.31% [41] |
South Africa | 53,967 (2001) [42] | 0.12% [43] |
Sweden | 34,454 (2004) [44] | 0.38% [45] |
United Kingdom | 197,863 (2004) [46] [47] | 0.33% [48] |
United States | 1,293,000 (2002, estimated) [49] | 0.44% [50] |
Moving this in from the main article. Let's try to fix it. - Kyd 01:42, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
Draft version of the "Compulsory & coerced abortion" section which would be slotted under "Social issues." Anyone have any suggestions or additional information? - Kyd 04:41, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
In the future, please place comments outside of the preview text, as it is confusing otherwise. Also, please remember to sign your comments with four tildes, ~~~~ Thanks. - Kyd 05:08, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
Okay, here's a question: should we include discussion of examples of compulsory pregnancy along with those of compulsory abortion? Romania immediately springs to mind. - Kyd 06:12, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
And forced pregnancy was explained as being a result of rape, IIRC. ____G_o_o_d____ 14:32, 12 April 2006 (UTC)