Is abortion legal in Hong Kong?
Legal (broad reasons)
Abortion is permitted on broad grounds including economic or social reasons.
Hong Kong is one of 16 countries classified “Legal (broad reasons)” for abortion — 7% of the 220 with data.
Source
- Taken from
- Wikipedia: Abortion law
- Last checked
- 15 September 2026
- How it was classified
- Read directly from the source’s own table, without interpretation.
Nearby countries
- Macau
- Legal (limited) Abortion is permitted on limited grounds such as a risk to health.
- Taiwan
- Legal (broad reasons) Abortion is permitted on broad grounds including economic or social reasons.
- Vietnam
- Legal on request Abortion is available on request, subject to a gestational limit.
- Philippines
- Illegal Abortion is prohibited, with no explicit exceptions recorded.
- Laos
- Legal (broad reasons) Abortion is permitted on broad grounds including economic or social reasons.
- Cambodia
- Legal on request Abortion is available on request, subject to a gestational limit.
Other laws in Hong Kong
- Suicide Laws
- Not a crime
- Surrogacy
- Banned
A visual reference compiled from Wikipedia’s law-by-country articles, not legal advice. Laws change and summaries simplify — check a primary source before relying on anything here.