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Abortions Requested by 853 Girls Under 19 in 2024, Statistics Office Says
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First reported by Srugim · Jun 23, 2026
What happened
In 2024, 853 girls under 19 in Israel requested abortions, about 6% of all cases, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics. The report says overall requests continued a long decline, approvals remained near universal, and large gaps persisted by age, religion, marital status and origin.
- 01853 girls under 19 sought abortions in Israel in 2024.
- 02Teenage girls made up 5.8% of all requests, down from 14.3% in 2006.
- 03Overall requests totaled 14,608, with 99.8% approved.
- 04Pregnancy outside marriage was the most common reason, at 43.3%.
- 05Israel’s abortion request rate was 6.6 per 1,000 women, midrange internationally.
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