Number of Pregnancy Report in Japan, 2020

In 2020, the number of pregnancy reports has dropped dramatically in Japan.

According to the report published by Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the number of reported pregnancies in May 2020 were decreased by 17.6% compared to May 2019.

Probably it was caused the corona virus. It is thought that various factors are involved in the decrease in the number of pregnancy reports, but one of the factors is "Women concerned about the severity of infection with the coronavirus (pregnant women are at high risk of becoming severe), and they are intentionally avoiding pregnancy."

Here is the detail of the data.

Table 1: Status of the number of pregnancy reports, 2018-2020

	2020	2020	2019	2019	2018	2018
Month	Monthly	Cumulative	Monthly	Cumulative	Monthly	Cumulative
1	82,864		84,043		86,979
2	71,495	154,359	74,764	158,807	77,960	164,939
3	78,409	232,768	75,468	234,275	82,738	247,677
4	75,610	308,378	75,874	310,149	77,485	325,162
5	67,322	375,700	81,737	391,886	84,538	409,700
6	66,761	442,461	70,833	462,719	75,420	485,120
7	69,341	511,802	77,811	540,530	76,666	561,786
8	68,559	580,361	72,903	613,433	77,622	639,408
9	71,865	652,226	72,600	686,033	69,805	709,213
10	74,993	727,219	80,283	766,316	84,550	793,763
11			73,362	839,678	77,796	871,559
12			77,195	916,873	76,618	948,177

Table 2: Changes of pregnancy reports, 2019-2020

Month	year-on-year change (by month) 2020-2019	year-on-year change (Cumulative) 2020-2019	year-on-year change (by month) 2020/2019	year-on-year change (Cumulative) 2020/2019
1	-1,179		-1.40%
2	-3,269	-4,448	-4.40%	-2.80%
3	2,941	-1,507	3.90%	-0.60%
4	-264	-1,771	-0.30%	-0.60%
5	-14,415	-16,186	-17.60%	-4.10%
6	-4,072	-20,258	-5.70%	-4.40%
7	-8,470	-28,728	-10.90%	-5.30%
8	-4,344	-33,072	-6.00%	-5.40%
9	-735	-33,807	-1.00%	-4.90%
10	-5,290	-39,097	-6.60%	-5.10%

Source is Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. 令和２年度の妊娠届出数の状況について

www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/newpage_15670.html
www.mhlw.go.jp/content/11920000/000709453.pdf

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