In 2023, 73,816 abortions were recorded in Azerbaijan.
According to Modern.az, the number of abortions has more than doubled in recent years.
Thus, the number of abortions registered in 2010 was 26,801. That is, the number of abortions has multiplied by 2.7 in the last 13 years.
Most abortionists are young. In 2023, more than 50 percent of women who will have abortions, or 37,000 people, will be between 15 and 29 years old.
According to statistics, 68 women between the ages of 15 and 17 and 2,528 women between the ages of 18 and 19 had abortions last year.
