Countries With the Lowest Abortion Rate (estimate)

Every country with a figure for abortion rate (estimate), ranked from lowest to highest. The top three are Singapore (5), Switzerland (5.18) and Germany (5.77). The middle country of the 145 has 27.9.

What this measures

Abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-49 (model estimate, 2015-2019). Source: Guttmacher Institute (Bearak et al. 2022, BMJ Global Health). For this measure, no agreed better direction.

The Guttmacher Institute's estimate of all abortions, legal or not, per 1,000 women aged 15 to 49 (women of childbearing age), averaged over 2015-2019. Where a country has good counts, the estimate stays close to them. Where it does not, including most countries where abortion is banned, it is worked out by a statistical model from surveys, births, birth control use and similar countries. Only 75 of the 166 countries with any data had counts reliable enough to use directly, so for many countries this is an informed estimate with a wide range: Georgia's is 80, but it could be anywhere from 46 to 133. The official count of legal abortions is shown separately. No "better" direction is set.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2019–2019. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on abortion rate (estimate)

• Countries With the Highest Abortion Rate (estimate)
• Abortion rate (estimate) by country: trend over time and what it goes with

Related rankings

• Countries With the Lowest Unintended Pregnancy Rates
• Countries With the Lowest Unintended Pregnancies Ending in Abortion
• Countries With the Lowest Abortion Rate (legal, reported)
• Countries With the Lowest Contraceptive Use (any method)
• Countries With the Lowest Contraceptive Use (modern methods)
• Countries With the Lowest Life Expectancy
• Countries With the Lowest Infant Mortality
• Countries With the Lowest Under-5 Mortality

A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.