Abortions by patient age Canada 2022

According to the data, among women in Canada aged 25 to 29 years there were 24,923 reported abortions in 2022. This statistic depicts the number of abortions performed in Canada in 2022, by patient age.

Number of abortions reported in Canada in 2022, by patient age

Characteristic	Number of abortions
Less than or equal to 17 years	2,012
18-24 years	23,773
25-29 years	24,923
30-34 years	21,302
35 years and older	21,239
Unknown	3,962

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Release date

March 2024

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Canada

Survey time period

2022

Supplementary notes

Induced abortion is defined as the medical termination of pregnancy. Equivalent terms include artificial abortion, therapeutic abortion, voluntary termination of pregnancy, elective termination of pregnancy and active termination of pregnancy.

In recent years, medical abortions have become more accessible in primary care settings (e.g., nurse practitioner and physician offices, community and public health clinics), and most of these are not included in the data tables. Therefore, volumes reported underestimate the true number of induced abortions in Canada.

Detailed age breakdowns are not available from Newfoundland and Labrador and British Columbia non-hospital settings for patients younger than age 25. Data for the affected age categories is presented in the age group "unknown (≤24)" row. For the pan-Canadian Total reported row, this data is included in the "unknown" category.

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