each year?Īn exact answer is hard to come by. National Library of Medicine, a branch of the National Institutes of Health. In addition, this post uses data from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) on complications from abortion.
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The latest full summary of Guttmacher data came in the institute’s report titled “ Abortion Incidence and Service Availability in the United States, 2020.” It includes figures for 20 and estimates for 2018. For each interim year, Guttmacher has calculated estimates based on trends from its own figures and from other data. (In 2020, the last year for which it has released data on the number of abortions in the U.S., it used estimates for 12% of abortions.) For most of the 2000s, Guttmacher has conducted these national surveys every three years, each time getting abortion data for the prior two years. It uses questionnaires and health department data, and it provides estimates for abortion providers that don’t respond to its inquiries. Guttmacher compiles its figures after contacting every known provider of abortions – clinics, hospitals and physicians’ offices – in the country.
Guttmacher data in this post comes from national surveys of abortion providers that Guttmacher has conducted 19 times since 1973. Previous reports can be found at by entering “abortion surveillance” into the search box. The methodology for the CDC’s latest abortion surveillance report, which includes data from 2020, can be found here. Most states, though, do have data in the reports, and the figures for the vast majority of them came from each state’s central health agency, while for some states, the figures came from hospitals and other medical facilities.ĭiscussion of CDC abortion data involving women’s state of residence, marital status, race, ethnicity, age, abortion history and the number of previous live births excludes the low share of abortions where that information was not supplied. The three reporting areas that did not submit data to the CDC in 2020 – California, Maryland and New Hampshire – accounted for approximately 19% of all abortions in the U.S.
Since 1997, the CDC’s totals have lacked data from some states (most notably California) for the years that those states did not report data to the agency. Its figures from 1973 through 1996 include data from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and New York City – 52 “reporting areas” in all. The CDC data that is highlighted in this post comes from the agency’s “abortion surveillance” reports, which have been published annually since 1974 (and which have included data from 1969). This compilation of data on abortion in the United States draws mainly from two sources: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Guttmacher Institute, both of which have regularly compiled national abortion data for approximately half a century, and both of which collect their data in different ways.
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