HONG KONG — More than 13 million abortions are performed each year in China, according to statistics disclosed by Chinese health officials on Thursday, a marked increase from 2003, the most recent statistics available.

据中国卫生机构最新数据显示，中国每年有1300万堕胎发生，与2003年相比显著上升。

When unreported and medication-induced abortions are counted, the actual number is substantially higher, according to physicians and medical researchers quoted by the state-run newspaper China Daily on Thursday.

引用：未记录在案以及药流计算在内的话，这个数目还要高很多。

The rate of abortion in China — about 24 abortions for every 1,000 women between the ages of 15 and 44 — is less than half that of the world’s highest rate. That is Russia’s, at 53.7 per 1,000, according to the United Nations Population Division. Some two million abortions are performed each year in Russia, which has a population of 142 million. China’s population is 1.3 billion.

中国的堕胎率——每1000名15到44岁的女性中，就有24例堕胎——还不到世界最高比例的一半。那是在俄罗斯，据资料，那里是千分之53.7。俄罗斯人口为1亿4千2百万，每年大约有堕胎200万例。而中国的人口有13亿。

But the rise in the numbers is significant. In a joint report, the World Health Organization and the Guttmacher Institute put the number of abortions in China in 2003 at 9 million, out of a total of 42 million worldwide that year.

但是中国的堕胎率增长迅速。据一篇报道显示，2003年，中国堕胎有900万，同期的世界总数是4200万。

Chinese officials said a low level of sex education among young people was the reason for the widespread use of abortion.

中国官员称对年轻人的性教育不力是主要原因。

More than 70 percent of callers to a pregnancy phone line at a Shanghai hospital knew almost nothing about contraception, China Daily reported. Only 17 percent were aware of venereal diseases, and less than 30 percent knew that HIV/AIDS could be transmitted sexually.

据 报道，打到一个上海医院一个怀孕热线中的70%的人除了避孕对其他一无所知。只有17%的人知道性病，仅不到30%的人知道艾滋可以通过性行为传播。

“Sex is no longer considered taboo among young people today, and they believe they can learn everything they need from the Internet,” Yu Dongyan, a gynecologist, told the paper. “But it doesn’t mean they’ve developed a proper understanding or attitude toward it.”

“性在现在的年轻人中已经不是禁忌，他们相信他们会在网路上学到一切的。”一位妇科医生说道。“但这并不说明他们对性已经有足够的了解和正确的态度。”

A Chinese cultural preference for sons, combined with the state’s longstanding one-child policy, has resulted in a widening use of gender-selective abortions and “an imminent generation of excess men,” according to a recent report in the online British Medical Journal. There are now 32 million more Chinese boys than girls under 20, the researchers found, an imbalance that is expected to widen over the next 20 years.

中国文化向来重男轻女，加上国家长期的计划生育政策，造成“性别筛选流产”的广泛使用。“即将造成男性过多的一代，”中国现在20以下的人中，男孩比女孩多3200万，在接下来的20年中将造成不和谐。

Abortion has been legal in China since 1953, although sex-selective abortions were banned starting in 1994. China was the first country to approve mifepristone, the abortion-inducing drug also known as RU-486, and by the late 1990s it was widely available — by prescription and on the black market — all across China.

堕胎在1953年开始就在中国合法化，虽然“性别筛选流产”在1994年被禁止。中国是世界上第一个允许使用mifepristone（一种堕胎药，也叫ru486），在90年代后期，这种药品在全国范围内都很容易拿到——不论是通过处方还是黑市。

Wu Shangchun, a research official with the National Population and Family Planning Commission, told China Daily that about 10 million abortion-inducing pills are sold annually in China.

某机构某人说：中国每年大约有1000万份堕胎药被消费掉。

Abortions at registered clinics in China cost about $88.

在正规诊所堕胎费用大约是88刀。

Nearly half of the women who had abortions had not used any form of contraception, Ms. Wu said. About 60 percent of the women who have abortions are between 20 and 29 years old, and most are single.

几乎有一半的堕胎妇女性行为中从不采取避孕措施。吴小姐说，60%的堕胎女性在20到29岁之间，其中大部分是单身。

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/world/asia/31abortion.html?ref=asia