Number of pregnancy terminations. Classification: years, region (place of termination/place of residence of the women), features of statistics of pregnancy terminations: family status/reason for termination/type of surgical intervention/duration of pregnancy/facility of termination/previous live births

Categorization statistics of pregnancy terminations	Year (descending)
	1996	2000	2005	2010	2015	2020	2021	2022	2023
Terminations of pregnancy altogether	130,899	134,609	124,023	110,431	99,237	99,948	94,596	103,927	106,218
... by marital status
Unmarried	53,195	59,923	63,110	61,385	57,234	57,814	55,059	60,602	61,934
Married	68,524	66,062	54,257	43,588	37,659	38,286	35,961	39,656	40,384
Widow	760	564	409	252	228	182	182	199	184
Divorced	8,420	8,060	6,247	5,206	4,116	3,666	3,394	3,470	3,716
... by reason of termination
Medical indication	4,818	3,630	3,177	3,077	3,879	3,809	3,903	3,924	3,996
Criminological indication	56	34	21	24	20	29	50	35	35
Counseling rule (Beratungsregelung)	126,025	130,945	120,825	107,330	95,338	96,110	90,643	99,968	102,187
... by type of termination
Curettage	13,685	15,107	13,058	11,544	13,164	12,080	10,792	10,479	9,784
Vacuum aspiration	113,295	111,226	98,045	79,432	63,934	54,899	49,261	52,504	51,084
Hysterotomy/hysterectomy	52	17	22	11	12	2	2	1	1
Mifegyne/Mifepristone	-	4,120	10,177	16,074	18,502	28,943	30,564	36,729	40,659
Termination with other drugs	3,867	4,139	2,721	3,024	3,001	3,349	3,212	3,447	3,895
Feticide in case of multiple pregnancy	-	-	-	33	77	50	61	50	37
Feticide in other cases	-	-	-	313	547	625	704	717	758
... by duration of terminated pregnancy (starting from 2010) Info
less than 5 weeks	.	.	.	7,896	6,629	8,642	8,869	10,173	11,838
5 to less than 7 weeks	.	.	.	33,380	28,880	32,555	31,051	34,106	36,452
7 to less than 9 weeks	.	.	.	39,132	35,954	34,146	31,738	34,928	34,640
9 to less than 12 weeks	.	.	.	27,444	24,979	21,731	19,852	21,607	20,115
12 to less than 16 weeks	.	.	.	1,145	1,060	1,115	1,220	1,174	1,155
16 to less than 19 weeks	.	.	.	570	617	663	706	698	835
19 to less than 22 weeks	.	.	.	402	484	448	432	501	468
22 and more weeks	.	.	.	462	634	648	728	740	715
... by duration of terminated pregnancy (1996 to 2009) Info
Less than 6 weeks	11,150	15,478	15,302	.	.	.	.	.	.
6 to less than 8 weeks	43,492	46,492	42,156	.	.	.	.	.	.
8 to less than 10 weeks	48,820	46,773	41,719	.	.	.	.	.	.
10 to less than 13 weeks	25,329	23,769	22,626	.	.	.	.	.	.
13 to less than 23 weeks	1,949	1,943	2,049	.	.	.	.	.	.
23 and more weeks	159	154	171	.	.	.	.	.	.
... by facility of termination
Hospital (outpatient)	44,837	29,468	24,121	20,395	18,954	15,915	14,867	14,780	14,487
Hospital (inpatient)	17,829	12,227	3,438	2,847	2,807	2,888	3,103	3,072	2,925
Gynaecological practice	68,233	92,914	96,464	87,189	77,476	81,145	76,626	86,075	88,806
... by number of previous live births
No previous live birth	47,809	51,687	50,357	44,525	38,793	40,663	38,686	43,828	45,127
1 previous live birth	32,709	34,268	32,657	28,429	24,869	22,001	20,542	21,785	21,993
2 previous live births	34,677	33,361	28,629	25,082	23,111	23,700	22,254	24,009	23,851
3 previous live births	11,287	11,040	8,911	8,792	8,533	9,279	8,772	9,604	9,932
4 previous live births	3,052	2,900	2,394	2,438	2,597	2,804	2,896	3,043	3,414
5 or more previous live births	1,365	1,353	1,075	1,165	1,334	1,501	1,446	1,658	1,901

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Region	Germany	Germany Baden-Wurttemberg Bavaria Berlin Brandenburg Bremen Hamburg Hesse Mecklenburg Western Pomerania Lower Saxony North Rhine-Westphalia Rhineland-Palatinate Saarland Saxony Saxony Anhalt Schleswig-Holstein Thuringia abroad All places of residence
Place of residence/termination	Place of Termination	Place of Termination Place of Residence

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Comment(s)

• The data shown under "Abroad" is for women who have their permanent residence abroad.
• The position "Germany" includes the figures for all abortions performed within Germany including those performed on women who have their permanent residence abroad.

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• The table was extended by the year 2023 on 24 Apr 2024.
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• Information concerning Pregnancy terminations, e.g. by age .
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