I’m surprised the Indian abortion rate is so low—with all those female fetuses they’re supposedly aborting.
While the horrendous practice of female abortion does happen, it is isolated to rural areas. Abortion is totally unacceptable in the mainstream culture and there is a huge societal taboo against it which has the good effect of severely reducing abortions.
The 2nd reason the number is low could be the reporting of data itself. In a country of 1.1 billion people, it is very difficult to collect and tabulate info like this accurately.
Probably the OFFICIAL abortion rate is low.