NEW 2020 DATA
Abortion legislation | Practical conditions | Abortion statistics
Characteristics of women having induced abortion | Fertility and contraception data | Country-specific characteristics
1975: abortion is allowed
(Bundesgesetzblatt, No. 60, 1974 dated 23 January 1974, effective in January 1975)
Specific conditions due to COVID-19
- Federal Office for Safety in Health Care has granted approval that all gynaecologists can prescribe the Mifegyne® abortion pill
Legal conditions
- Pre-abortion counselling by a physician.
Specific conditions for minors
- None
Abortion legislation | Practical conditions | Abortion statistics | Characteristics of women having induced abortion
Fertility and contraception data | Country-specific characteristics
Abortion is not covered by social security in Austria nor it is notifiable. Therefore no official statistic exists. But estimates are around 30.000 abortions per year for a population of 8,8 million or 2 million women in fertile age.
Abortion is not covered by social security in Austria nor it is notifiable. Therefore no official statistic exists. But estimates are around 30.000 abortions per year for a population of 8,8 million or 2 million women in fertile age.
Women age at first birth
- 29.7 years of age (2020)
Overall contraception data:
79% of women aged 15-49 used a contraceptive method (2019):
- 34% used oral contraceptive.
- 10% used intra-uterine device (IUD).
- 35% used another contraception method.
Pre-abortion contraception:
- Percentage of women who had abortion had a contraceptive method before abortion procedure [missing data]
Contraception during abortion process:
- Percentage of women had a contraceptive method prescribed during abortion process [missing data]
- Percentage of women had long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) prescribed during abortion process [missing data]
Abortion legislation | Practical conditions | Abortion statistics | Characteristics of women having induced abortion
Fertility and contraception data | Country-specific characteristics
Any physician can perform medical abortion but antiprogesterone is only distributed to hospitals and clinics, not to individual physician offices. Most physicians who perform abortions would like to offer medical abortion but are not legally entitled to order the drug. As only very few hospitals perform abortions, medical abortion access is limited.
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SOURCES:
COVID measures taken from the article by Bojovic N, Stanisljevic J, Giunti G. The impact of COVID-19 on abortion access: Insights from the European Union and the United Kingdom. Health Policy. 2021 Jul;125(7):841-858.
IPPF European Network – Updated January 2012 (http://www.ippfen.org/)
Österreichische Gesellschaft für Familienplanung (ÖGF) (http://www.oegf.at)
Austrian Contraceptive Survey 2019: www.verhuetungsreport.at
Gynmed Clinic, Vienna, www.gynmed.at
Statistik Austria, www.statistik.at
https://www.statistik.at/web_en/statistics/PeopleSociety/population/demographic_indicators/index.html
We thank Dr. Christian FIALA for his help in data collection.
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