Although the number of abortions remained high, it had dropped from 70 to 37 per 1,000 females of child-bearing age in the previous 8 years, and was now smaller than the number of births.
虽然流产数字居高不下，但是前八年中，育龄妇女人工流产人数从70‰下降到了37‰，现在人工流产数字已经低于婴儿出生数。