Monde: 46.000.000 davortements par an, soit 87 par minute.
Fides cited data published by the World Health Organization in 2002 would indicate that there are a staggering 46 million abortions every year, about 87 a minute.
In Italy, data for 2004 show an increase in abortion, the Catholic newspaper Avvenire reported Oct. 26. There were 4,537 more abortions, for a total of 136,715. This was a 3.4% rise over 2003, and a reversal of the declines in recent years.
also posted an increase in abortions in 2004, to 84,985, a 6.5% increase over the previous year, according to a Dec. 27 report in the newspaper ABC.
In the last nine years the number of abortions in has doubled, and in 2004 more than 12,000 teen-agers under age 19 obtained abortions. According to provisional data from the Health Ministry there were 453,278 live births in 2004, about five births for every one abortion.
The proportion of abortions to births is even higher in . Last year a debate arose over the exact number of abortions, due to the lack of precise statistics on a national level. The matter was finally cleared up late last year. The Australian newspaper reported Dec. 14 that there are more than 84,000 abortions each year, or one in every four pregnancies.
The figures (for 2003), from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, also show that young women ages 20-24 have more than one abortion for every two live births.
NDLR: Belgique: 15.595 par an càd 300 par jour (2003) Chiffres peu médiatisés mais bien réels …