In 2006, 846,181 legal induced abortions were reported to CDC from 49 reporting areas. This total presents a 3% increase from the 820,151 abortions reported for 2005. The abortion rate for 2006 was 16.1 legal induced abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-44 years. This also represents a 3% increase from 2005. The abortion ratio was 236 legal induced abortions per 1,000 live births in 2006. This represents no change from 2005. During the previous decade (1997-2006), reported abortion numbers, rates, and ratios decreased 5.7%, 8.8%, and 14.8%, respectively; most of these declines occurred before 2001. During the previous decade (1997-2006), women aged 20-29 years accounted for the majority of abortions (57%). Also a higher number of abortions were obtained by white women and unmarried women. The majority (62.0%) of abortions in 2006 were performed at ≤8 weeks' gestation. Source: MMWR2009;58(SS08):1-35.
1,3 million.
1,2 million abortions/year.
13 million abortions a year are performed in China.
Late-term abortions account for about 1% of abortions out of millions each year.
Worldwide it's about 41 million per year.
3,2 million.
There have been more than 15.5 million abortions performed world wide in the first half of 2014. For more information visit the Related Link.
In the US it's 1,2 million a year divided with 365 days (although abortions are not performed every day) which gives about 3288 abortions a day.
42 million each year.
The last statistics reported were from 2009. There were 784,507 abortions that year. So about 2,150 an hour.
About 1/year in the US.
WORLDWIDENumber of abortions per year: Approximately 42 MillionNumber of abortions per day: Approximately 115,000UNITED STATESNumber of abortions per year: 1.37 Million (1996)Number of abortions per day: Approximately 3,700