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Table 1-1Selected pregnancy outcomes statistics, by age group and place of residence of females — Canada

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Canada: Part 1
	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
	number of events
Total, pregnancies ¹ ^, ² ^, ³
All ages	504,476	493,195	474,047	464,672	454,370	443,871	449,270	443,355	447,904	445,899
Under 20 years	46,593	45,375	42,953	43,012	41,089	39,208	37,622	35,547	33,553	32,035
Under 15 years	835	799	784	692	657	559	541	470	411	424
15 to 19 years	45,758	44,576	42,169	42,320	40,432	38,649	37,081	35,077	33,142	31,611
15 to 17 years	16,403	16,110	15,105	14,860	13,614	13,030	12,395	11,144	10,285	10,359
18 to 19 years	29,355	28,466	27,064	27,316	26,818	25,619	24,686	23,933	22,857	21,252
20 to 24 years	106,951	103,633	99,937	98,724	96,017	94,070	92,559	90,779	90,566	88,305
25 to 29 years	150,221	144,831	137,779	132,926	129,450	125,458	126,715	125,142	127,572	127,538
30 to 34 years	136,654	132,788	126,040	121,286	118,124	114,736	120,013	119,081	121,580	123,089
35 to 39 years	53,457	55,796	56,228	57,057	57,749	57,893	59,274	59,245	60,316	59,963
40 years and over	9,899	10,439	10,921	11,149	11,817	12,385	13,032	13,530	14,239	14,838
Unknown age group	701	333	188	518	124	121	55	31	78	131
Live births ⁴
All ages	378,016	366,200	348,598	342,418	337,249	327,882	333,744	328,802	335,202	337,072
Under 20 years	23,657	21,824	19,920	19,913	18,982	17,503	16,572	15,533	14,945	14,186
Under 15 years	241	227	218	192	177	153	116	120	97	111
15 to 19 years	23,416	21,597	19,702	19,721	18,805	17,350	16,456	15,413	14,848	14,075
15 to 17 years	7,846	7,169	6,427	6,453	5,986	5,372	4,927	4,538	4,262	4,182
18 to 19 years	15,570	14,428	13,275	13,268	12,819	11,978	11,529	10,875	10,586	9,893
20 to 24 years	71,142	67,515	63,522	63,041	61,480	59,523	58,186	56,729	56,377	55,383
25 to 29 years	121,978	116,723	110,211	106,899	104,674	101,072	102,453	100,646	103,148	103,743
30 to 34 years	114,516	111,024	105,131	101,422	99,455	96,353	101,460	100,768	103,607	105,705
35 to 39 years	40,419	42,641	43,089	43,801	45,165	45,393	46,704	46,468	47,851	48,130
40 years and over	5,822	6,267	6,598	6,844	7,374	7,924	8,347	8,647	9,214	9,802
Unknown age group	482	206	127	498	119	114	22	11	60	123
Induced abortions ² ^, ⁵ ^, ⁶
All ages	108,248	111,659	111,709	110,331	105,666	105,427	106,418	105,154	103,768	100,039
Under 20 years	21,224	22,118	21,792	22,074	21,140	20,864	20,380	19,344	17,958	17,242
Under 15 years	556	544	530	483	468	389	412	337	302	304
15 to 19 years	20,668	21,574	21,262	21,591	20,672	20,475	19,968	19,007	17,656	16,938
15 to 17 years	7,916	8,387	8,182	7,971	7,276	7,387	7,222	6,381	5,785	5,974
18 to 19 years	12,752	13,187	13,080	13,476	13,396	13,088	12,746	12,626	11,871	10,964
20 to 24 years	32,215	33,207	33,714	33,422	32,462	32,623	32,730	32,371	32,662	31,467
25 to 29 years	23,455	24,087	24,014	22,956	21,983	21,735	22,012	22,189	22,236	21,662
30 to 34 years	17,504	17,862	17,517	16,959	15,708	15,790	16,243	15,981	15,734	15,089
35 to 39 years	10,423	10,821	11,020	11,269	10,646	10,631	10,977	11,022	10,821	10,206
40 years and over	3,220	3,448	3,598	3,636	3,726	3,780	4,043	4,230	4,343	4,368
Unknown age group	207	116	54	15	1	4	33	17	14	5
Fetal loss ³ ^, ⁷
All ages	18,212	15,336	13,740	11,923	11,455	10,562	9,108	9,399	8,934	8,788
Under 20 years	1,712	1,433	1,241	1,025	967	841	670	670	650	607
Under 15 years	38	28	36	17	12	17	13	13	12	9
15 to 19 years	1,674	1,405	1,205	1,008	955	824	657	657	638	598
15 to 17 years	641	554	496	436	352	271	246	225	238	203
18 to 19 years	1,033	851	709	572	603	553	411	432	400	395
20 to 24 years	3,594	2,911	2,701	2,261	2,075	1,924	1,643	1,679	1,527	1,455
25 to 29 years	4,788	4,021	3,554	3,071	2,793	2,651	2,250	2,307	2,188	2,133
30 to 34 years	4,634	3,902	3,392	2,905	2,961	2,593	2,310	2,332	2,239	2,295
35 to 39 years	2,615	2,334	2,119	1,987	1,938	1,869	1,593	1,755	1,644	1,627
40 years and over	857	724	725	669	717	681	642	653	682	668
Unknown age group	12	11	7	5	4	3	0	3	4	3

Canada: Part 2
	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
	rate per 1,000 females
Total, pregnancies ¹ ^, ² ^, ³
All ages	64.7	62.7	60.1	58.8	57.3	55.7	56.0	54.9	55.2	53.3
Under 20 years	40.2	38.7	36.3	35.9	34.0	32.1	30.6	28.8	27.1	25.6
Under 15 years	4.3	4.1	4.0	3.5	3.3	2.8	2.7	2.4	2.0	2.0
15 to 19 years	47.6	45.6	42.8	42.4	40.1	38.0	36.1	33.9	32.1	30.5
15 to 17 years	28.5	27.3	25.4	24.8	22.6	21.4	20.1	18.1	16.8	16.9
18 to 19 years	76.1	73.5	69.3	68.5	65.9	62.5	59.8	57.1	54.1	50.2
20 to 24 years	108.3	105.3	101.5	100.1	96.4	93.1	89.8	86.4	84.6	81.2
25 to 29 years	138.9	135.8	130.7	127.6	125.6	122.5	124.1	121.1	122.0	119.6
30 to 34 years	105.1	104.3	101.8	101.7	102.8	102.5	108.1	107.4	109.9	111.5
35 to 39 years	41.7	42.7	42.6	42.8	43.2	43.5	45.3	46.4	48.8	50.0
40 years and over	8.6	8.8	8.9	8.9	9.2	9.5	9.8	10.1	10.5	10.8
Unknown age group	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
Live births ⁴
All ages	48.5	46.6	44.2	43.3	42.5	41.1	41.6	40.7	41.3	40.3
Under 20 years	20.4	18.6	16.8	16.6	15.7	14.3	13.5	12.6	12.1	11.4
Under 15 years	1.2	1.2	1.1	1.0	0.9	0.8	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5
15 to 19 years	24.3	22.1	20.0	19.8	18.6	17.0	16.0	14.9	14.4	13.6
15 to 17 years	13.6	12.2	10.8	10.8	9.9	8.8	8.0	7.4	7.0	6.8
18 to 19 years	40.4	37.2	34.0	33.3	31.5	29.2	27.9	26.0	25.1	23.4
20 to 24 years	72.1	68.6	64.5	63.9	61.7	58.9	56.4	54.0	52.7	50.9
25 to 29 years	112.8	109.5	104.6	102.6	101.6	98.7	100.3	97.4	98.6	97.3
30 to 34 years	88.1	87.2	84.9	85.1	86.6	86.1	91.4	90.9	93.7	95.8
35 to 39 years	31.5	32.6	32.6	32.9	33.8	34.1	35.7	36.4	38.7	40.1
40 years and over	5.0	5.3	5.4	5.4	5.8	6.1	6.3	6.4	6.8	7.2
Unknown age group	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
Induced abortions ² ^, ⁵ ^, ⁶
All ages	13.9	14.2	14.2	14.0	13.3	13.2	13.3	13.0	12.8	12.0
Under 20 years	18.3	18.9	18.4	18.4	17.5	17.1	16.6	15.7	14.5	13.8
Under 15 years	2.8	2.8	2.7	2.4	2.3	1.9	2.1	1.7	1.5	1.4
15 to 19 years	21.5	22.1	21.6	21.6	20.5	20.1	19.4	18.4	17.1	16.3
15 to 17 years	13.7	14.2	13.7	13.3	12.1	12.1	11.7	10.4	9.5	9.7
18 to 19 years	33.1	34.0	33.5	33.8	32.9	32.0	30.9	30.1	28.1	25.9
20 to 24 years	32.6	33.8	34.2	33.9	32.6	32.3	31.7	30.8	30.5	28.9
25 to 29 years	21.7	22.6	22.8	22.0	21.3	21.2	21.6	21.5	21.3	20.3
30 to 34 years	13.5	14.0	14.1	14.2	13.7	14.1	14.6	14.4	14.2	13.7
35 to 39 years	8.1	8.3	8.3	8.5	8.0	8.0	8.4	8.6	8.8	8.5
40 years and over	2.8	2.9	2.9	2.9	2.9	2.9	3.0	3.2	3.2	3.2
Unknown age group	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
Fetal loss ³ ^, ⁷
All ages	2.3	2.0	1.7	1.5	1.4	1.3	1.1	1.2	1.1	1.1
Under 20 years	1.5	1.2	1.0	0.9	0.8	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
Under 15 years	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0
15 to 19 years	1.7	1.4	1.2	1.0	0.9	0.8	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6
15 to 17 years	1.1	0.9	0.8	0.7	0.6	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.3
18 to 19 years	2.7	2.2	1.8	1.4	1.5	1.3	1.0	1.0	0.9	0.9
20 to 24 years	3.6	3.0	2.7	2.3	2.1	1.9	1.6	1.6	1.4	1.3
25 to 29 years	4.4	3.8	3.4	2.9	2.7	2.6	2.2	2.2	2.1	2.0
30 to 34 years	3.6	3.1	2.7	2.4	2.6	2.3	2.1	2.1	2.0	2.1
35 to 39 years	2.0	1.8	1.6	1.5	1.4	1.4	1.2	1.4	1.3	1.4
40 years and over	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
Unknown age group	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...

Pregnancies equal the sum of live births, fetal loss and induced abortions.

For 2002 and 2003, Nunavut residents are excluded due to incomplete reporting.

For 2002 and 2003, hospitalized cases of miscarriages, illegal abortion and unspecified abortions in Nunavut are excluded due to incomplete reporting.

Live birth counts are based on registrations in the Birth Database.

Induced abortion counts are taken from the Therapeutic Abortion Survey that collects information on abortions performed in hospitals and clinics in Canada, as well as on abortions performed on Canadian residents in selected American states, for data years prior to 2004.

In 2004, information on induced abortions performed in clinics in Manitoba was not submitted to the Therapeutic Abortion Survey.

Fetal loss is the sum of stillbirth registrations in the Stillbirth Database and cases of miscarriages, illegal abortions and unspecified abortions reported in the Hospital Morbidity Database.

Note(s):

See "Data quality, concepts and methodology — Explanatory notes for the tables " section.

Source(s):

Statistics Canada, Canadian Vital Statistics, Birth Database and Stillbirth Database; Canadian Institute for Health Information, Hospital Morbidity Database and Therapeutic Abortion Database (CANSIM table 106-9002).