The Decline of Abortion in Spain Over the Last Decade.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To analyze how shifts in population composition and variations in the behavior of different sociodemographic groups have changed abortion practices in Spain between 2011 and 2021.

Methods

We used data from the Voluntary Terminations of Pregnancies register and Spanish Population and Housing Censuses to examine abortion rates and demographic characteristics of women aged 12-52. We used Poisson regression models and the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition technique to estimate the contributions of shifts in population structure and variations in behaviors to changes in abortion rates.

Results

We found that 40% of the decline was due to changes in sociodemographic characteristics. Specifically, the relative reduction in the number of younger women in the population an

SUBMITTER: Requena M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12747617 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature