[SJackson]

Most people estimate the rate of illegal abortions in Israel at 40% to 50% of the legal abortion rate, not the 100% mentioned in the article, for a total rate in the high teens. The legal rate, though, is about half the US.

I can't locate the link to the UN worldwide state, but Johnstons Archive has a pretty good set of tables at Abortion statistics and other data which do include estimates for some countries, like Turkey, with large Islamic populations.

[SJackson]

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[Piranha]

If nearly 100% of applications for abortion are accepted, why would there be a need for an illegal abortion market half-again as big as the legal one?

[Piranha]

That's a very interesting table.

Abortion is a horror anywhere that it occurs, and a 13% abortion rate in Israel is awful.

However, the fact is that according to your table the abortion rate is higher not only in poor countries including Russia (61%), Ukraine (53%), Belarus (53%), etc., but also such western countries as Greenland (52%), Australia (26%), Sweden (26%), South Korea (25%), the US (24%), New Zealand (24%), Canada (24%), the UK (23%), Singapore (23%), Japan (22%), Italy (20%), Norway (20%), France (20%), Denmark (19%), Iceland (18%), Texas (!?) (17%), Finland (16%), Germany (16%), Spain (14%) and Switzerland (13%).

It is a worldwide tragedy.

[gobucks]

Many thanks for the link!!