TABLE 6. Number and percentage of reported abortions, by known race and ethnicity and reporting area of occurrence — selected reporting areas,* United States, 2021.
| Area | Non-Hispanic |
Hispanic |
Total abortions reported by known race and ethnicity |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Black |
White |
Other† |
No. (% of all reported abortions)¶ | ||
| No. (%) | No. (%)§ | No. (%) | No. (%) | ||
| Alabama |
4,130 (63.9) |
1,731 (26.8) |
187 (2.9) |
414 (6.4) |
6,462 (99.6)
|
| Alaska |
82 (7.1) |
616 (53.3) |
422 (36.5) |
36 (3.1) |
1,156 (94.2)
|
| Arizona |
1,750 (13.1) |
4,497 (33.6) |
1,009 (7.5) |
6,118 (45.7) |
13,374 (95.5)
|
| Arkansas |
1,722 (56.5) |
1,024 (33.6) |
84 (2.8) |
219 (7.2) |
3,049 (97.3)
|
| Connecticut |
2,747 (27.5) |
3,252 (32.6) |
578 (5.8) |
3,412 (34.2) |
9,989 (98.5)
|
| Delaware |
850 (46.6) |
666 (36.5) |
42 (2.3) |
267 (14.6) |
1,825 (100.0)
|
| District of Columbia |
2,119 (57.3) |
525 (14.2) |
372 (10.1) |
683 (18.5) |
3,699 (95.6)
|
| Florida |
28,259 (37.5) |
22,476 (29.8) |
2,773 (3.7) |
21,931 (29.1) |
75,439 (94.5)
|
| Georgia |
27,292 (69.0) |
6,873 (17.4) |
1,808 (4.6) |
3,601 (9.1) |
39,574 (94.6)
|
| Idaho |
51 (3.4) |
955 (63.1) |
70 (4.6) |
438 (28.9) |
1,514 (97.5)
|
| Indiana |
2,946 (35.6) |
3,863 (46.7) |
627 (7.6) |
833 (10.1) |
8,269 (98.3)
|
| Kansas |
2,037 (26.0) |
3,794 (48.4) |
679 (8.7) |
1,331 (17.0) |
7,841 (99.9)
|
| Kentucky |
1,501 (34.0) |
2,280 (51.7) |
257 (5.8) |
376 (8.5) |
4,414 (99.4)
|
| Maine |
165 (9.2) |
1,520 (85.2) |
57 (3.2) |
42 (2.4) |
1,784 (93.2)
|
| Michigan |
16,444 (56.6) |
10,329 (35.6) |
1,415 (4.9) |
858 (3.0) |
29,046 (96.6)
|
| Minnesota |
2,626 (28.6) |
4,158 (45.3) |
1,376 (15.0) |
1,026 (11.2) |
9,186 (90.6)
|
| Mississippi |
3,058 (80.1) |
640 (16.8) |
35 (0.9) |
84 (2.2) |
3,817 (100.0)
|
| Missouri |
—** |
70 (52.6) |
—** |
—** |
133 (88.7)
|
| Montana |
28 (1.6) |
1,445 (80.4) |
199 (11.1) |
126 (7.0) |
1,798 (100.0)
|
| Nevada |
1,760 (22.1) |
2,683 (33.7) |
846 (10.6) |
2,662 (33.5) |
7,951 (90.9)
|
| New Mexico |
327 (7.7) |
1,013 (24.0) |
435 (10.3) |
2,446 (57.9) |
4,221 (86.3)
|
| New York City |
14,959 (45.1) |
3,652 (11.0) |
3,789 (11.4) |
10,753 (32.4) |
33,153 (87.7)
|
| North Carolina |
15,946 (51.5) |
8,473 (27.3) |
2,311 (7.5) |
4,256 (13.7) |
30,986 (95.5)
|
| Oregon |
421 (6.8) |
3,434 (55.8) |
776 (12.6) |
1,523 (24.7) |
6,154 (86.6)
|
| South Carolina |
2,873 (45.8) |
2,582 (41.1) |
265 (4.2) |
556 (8.9) |
6,276 (100.0)
|
| South Dakota |
24 (12.6) |
102 (53.4) |
34 (17.8) |
31 (16.2) |
191 (99.5)
|
| Tennessee |
6,489 (54.3) |
4,188 (35.1) |
400 (3.3) |
870 (7.3) |
11,947 (98.1)
|
| Texas†† |
15,947 (31.0) |
13,883 (27.0) |
3,012 (5.9) |
18,539 (36.1) |
51,381 (99.1)
|
| Utah |
135 (4.4) |
1,678 (54.9) |
240 (7.9) |
1,004 (32.8) |
3,057 (97.7)
|
| Vermont |
42 (4.2) |
889 (88.8) |
38 (3.8) |
32 (3.2) |
1,001 (96.9)
|
| Virginia |
6,884 (47.2) |
4,837 (33.1) |
1,384 (9.5) |
1,489 (10.2) |
14,594 (90.4)
|
| West Virginia |
194 (14.1) |
1,146 (83.3) |
29 (2.1) |
6 (0.4) |
1,375 (100.0)
|
| Wyoming |
—** |
78 (77.2) |
—** |
—** |
101 (98.1)
|
|
Total
|
163,863 (41.5)
|
119,352 (30.2)
|
25,559 (6.5)
|
85,983 (21.8)
|
394,757 (94.9)
§§
|
|
Abortion rate¶¶
|
28.6
|
6.4
|
9.2
|
12.3
|
NA
|
| Abortion ratio*** | 498 | 116 | 179 | 186 | NA |
Abbreviation: NA = not applicable.
* Data from 33 reporting areas; excludes 19 reporting areas (California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York State, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Washington, and Wisconsin) that did not report, did not report by race and ethnicity, or did not meet reporting standards.
† Including Alaska Native, American Indian, Asian (Indian, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, or other Asian), Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander (Native Hawaiian, Guamanian or Chamorro, Samoan, or other Pacific Islander), other races, and multiple races.
§ Percentages for the individual component categories might not add to 100% because of rounding.
¶ Percentage is calculated as the number of abortions reported by known race and ethnicity divided by the sum of abortions reported by known and unknown race and ethnicity. Values ≥99.95% are rounded to 100.0%.
** Cells with a numerical value in the range of 1–4 and cells that would allow for calculation of these small values have been suppressed.
†† Reporting form contains only one question for race and ethnicity; therefore, abortions reported for women of White, Black, and other races (Asian and American Indian) are not explicitly identified as non-Hispanic.
§§ Percentage based on a total of 415,791 abortions reported among the areas that met reporting standards for race and ethnicity.
¶¶ Number of abortions obtained by women in a specific racial and ethnic group per 1,000 women aged 15–44 years in that same racial and ethnic group. For the total abortion rate only, abortions for women of unknown race and ethnicity were distributed according to the distribution of abortions among women of known race and ethnicity.
*** Number of abortions obtained by women in a specific racial and ethnic group per 1,000 live births to women in that same racial and ethnic group. For the total abortion ratio only, abortions for women of unknown race and ethnicity were distributed according to the distribution of abortions among women of known race and ethnicity.