Press release No. 458 of 2 December 2019
WIESBADEN – In the third quarter of 2019, the number of abortions increased by 3.9% in Germany, compared with the third quarter of 2018. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that roughly 25,200 abortions were recorded in the third quarter of 2019. Just under three quarters (71%) of the women who had an abortion in the third quarter of 2019 were aged between 18 and 34, 18% were between 35 and 39 years old. Just over 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 births.
Basic data and long time series are available in tables Statistics of abortions (23311) in the GENESIS-Online database.
