In total, 223,300 abortion were recorded in 2021, reports a study by the DREES. Reported to the number of women of childbearing age, the rate of appeal to abortion reached 15.5 per thousand.
Le Monde with afp
The number of voluntary pregnancy interruptions (abortion) remained practically stable in France in 2021 compared to 2020, but the figures are down for women under 25 and in particular for minors, according to a study of the Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics Department (DREES) published Tuesday, September 27.
In total, 223,300 abortion were recorded in 2021, against 222,000 in 2020 -year marked by a decline in conceptions during the first confinement linked to the COVVI -19 -and 233,000 in 2019, specifies the study. Reported to the number of women of childbearing age (between 15 and 49 years), the rate of appeal to abortion reached last year 15.5 per thousand, practically stable compared to 2020 (15.4 per thousand) .
twice as many abortions overseas
Abortion “continues to decrease among the youngest women”, below 30 years, notes the DREES. The decline is particularly notable for women aged 18 and 19, with whom the appeal rate went from 21.5 per thousand in 2014 to 17.2 in 2019, then to 14.3 in 2021. For minors, aged elderly From 15 to 17 years old, the rate went over the same period of 8.7, to 6, then 4.9 per thousand. But the number of births also fell among young women, so that, among those under 30, the “abortion ratios”, that is to say the ratio between the number of abortion and the number of births, remained stable between 2018 and 2020.
Regional disparities in the matter are very marked, note the authors of the study: the rate of appeal to abortion thus reaches 11.5 per thousand in the Pays-de-la-Loire, but 22.1 In Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur. In the overseas departments, abortion is twice as frequent than in mainland France, with an average rate of 29.6 per thousand, against 14.9. It was in Guadeloupe that the highest rate was noted last year, with 47.2 abortion per thousand women aged 15 to 49.