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Abortion statistics for England and Wales: 2018

Statistics and commentary on abortions carried out in 2018.

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This report sets out and comments on abortion statistics in England and Wales for 2018.

»Ê¹ÚÌåÓýapp statistics are obtained from the abortion notification forms returned to the chief medical officers of England and Wales.

Updates to this page

Published 13 June 2019
Last updated 5 March 2020 show all updates
  1. Updated 'Freedom of information and other data releases' to include 3 new requests: previous live births and stillbirths, by age, England and Wales, 2018; terminations for Micrognathia or Pierre Robin sequence; legal abortions: method and procedure by gestation groups, Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

  2. Updated 'Freedom of information and other data releases' to include 2 new requests: Croydon residents by clinic and FOI-1199620.

  3. Updated 'Freedom of information and other data releases' to include 2 new requests: FOI-1194181 and FOI-1196178.

  4. 'Freedom of information and other data releases' has been updated to include 4 new requests: Dr Philip Savage, Peter Douglas Table 1, Peter Douglas Table 2 and FOI-1192474.

  5. Updated 'Freedom of information and other data releases' to include 1 new request: FOI-1187034.

  6. A new file attachment has been added: 'Abortion statistics 2018: clinic data tables'.

  7. Updated 'Abortion statistics 2018: freedom of information and other data releases' to include 4 new requests: Tower Hamlets, BPAS, FOI-1178946 and FOI-1182080.

  8. Added new document: 'Abortion statistics 2018: freedom of information and other data releases'

  9. First published.

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