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Elective abortions performed in Catalonia. By age groups and marital status

Elective abortions performed in Catalonia. By age groups and marital status Catalonia. 2015
Single Married Widow/Div./Sep. Total
Under 15 years 45 0 0 45
From 15 to 19 years 1,925 40 2 1,978
From 20 to 24 years 3,557 266 38 3,894
From 25 to 29 years 3,046 813 178 4,089
From 30 to 34 years 2,551 1,286 388 4,335
From 35 to 39 years 1,562 1,428 479 3,584
From 40 to 44 years 489 641 285 1,465
From 45 years and over 39 53 35 131
Total 13,214 4,527 1,405 19,521
Percentage (%) 67.70 23.20 7.20 100.00
Source: Ministry of Health. The Register of Voluntary Pregnancy Terminations.
Note: From 2010, the sum of age groups by marital status may not correspond with the total, because it does not include women whose marital status is not documented.

Last update: November 17, 2017.

Methodological note

The information on legally performed abortions in Catalonia comes from the data collected by the Register of Elective Abortions, created by the Ministry of Health in 1987. This register systematically complies all operations performed in the centres certified for this health procedure that fall under the circumstances set out in the current legal regulations.

This information is processed on a quarter-over-quarter basis by the Spanish Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality, which produces the statistics on legal abortions corresponding to Spain as a whole. Concurrently, this ministry provides the Ministry of Health with the data on abortions by women residents of Catalonia carried out in the other autonomous communities of Spain, thus completing the information regarding all women residents of Catalonia.