Abortion Statistics: Year Ended December 2019
Tuesday, 16 June 2020
Press Release: Statistics New Zealand
Far fewer women aged under 20 years had abortions in recent years compared with a decade ago, Stats NZ said today.
Abortions for women under 20 have been decreasing since the peak in 2007. In 2019, just under 10 percent of the 12,857 abortions were for women under 20. In 2007, it was 23 percent.
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