In Sweden, the number of registered abortions fell slightly from 2016 to 2021, when it was below 33,700. However, it increase again in 2022, reaching nearly 35,400. The most common age of women who took an abortion was 30 to 34 years.
Number of legal abortions in Sweden from 2014 to 2022
*In spring 2013, the collection of statistics about abortions was stopped. On the 1st of January 2014, collection of abortion statistics was resumed and the method for collecting data was changed. Therefore the abortion statistics for 2013 is not existing in this statistic and data for 2014 and later is not comparable to the earlier data.
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