Abortion Statistics

Abortion Surveillance -- United States, 1999 (11/29/2002 Report)
{The most recent statistics posted at the CDC.gov website as of 8/2003}
 

Summary Charts: Statistics summary of CDC abortion surveillance for women who obtained legal abortions--United States, selected years, 1973-1999

Table 1. Characteristics of women who obtained legal abortions--United States, selected years, 1972-1999

Table 2. Number, ratio and rate of legal abortions and source of reporting for all reporting areas and for the 48 areas that reported in 1999--United States, 1970-1999

Table 3. Reported number, ratio, and rate of legal abortions by residence and occurrence, and percentage of abortions obtained by out-of-state residents, by state of occurrence--United States, 1999

Table 4. Reported legal abortions, by age group of women who obtained an abortion and state of occurrence--selected states, United States, 1999

Table5. Reported legal abortions obtained by adolescents, by known age and state of occurrence--selected states, United States, 1999

Table 6. Reported legal abortions, by weeks of gestation and state of occurrence--selected states, United States, 1999

Table 7. Reported legal abortions obtained at 8 weeks or less of gestation, by known weeks of gestation and state of occurrence--selected states, United States, 1999

Table 8. Reported legal abortions, by type of procedure and state of occurrence state of occurrence--selected states, United States, 1999

Table 9. Reported legal abortions, by race of women who obtained an abortion and state of occurrence--selected states, United States, 1999

Table 10. Reported legal abortions, by ethnicity of women who obtained an abortion and state of occurrence--selected states, United States, 1999

All abortion statistics used on this and related pages were taken from The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Series (online version), prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). All material in the MMWR Series is in the public domain and may be used and reprinted without special permission; citation as to source, however, is appreciated. For more information, visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website at www.cdc.gov