How the United States counts abortion, cancer, overdose deaths and maternal deaths — the legal basis, what gets collected, and who is missing from each national number. Four surveillance systems in one schema, so the comparison can be checked rather than asserted.
Every value carries a verification level. Nothing is estimated or inferred — a record that can't show its work is worth nothing the moment it's challenged.
Checked against the actual statute. The strongest claim available.
From a dated Guttmacher, CDC or ACOG compilation.
Not yet researched. An open question, never a finding.
No mandate exists, so the field has no answer.
Each of these counts a different thing, on a different legal basis, with a different degree of completeness. Setting them side by side is what makes the gap legible.
For every jurisdiction: is reporting required? Cancer and death registration are mandatory everywhere. Abortion is the column that varies — and maternal review is less universal than it's usually described.
| Code | Jurisdiction | Cancer | Death registration | Maternal review | Abortion |
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required partial not required pending research
Sort any column. Click any row to open that jurisdiction's full file — every field across all four systems, each with its source.
| Code↕ | Jurisdiction↕ | Abortion mandate↕ | Reports to CDC↕ | Data level↕ | Statute↕ | Record complete↕ |
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Showing 51 of 51 jurisdictions.
The Atlas is a snapshot. The Ledger is the record of motion — every dated, sourced change to how these systems count. Green moved toward completeness; red moved away.
What's verified and what's open, field by field. Where a national total is published, this checks our count against it — a mismatch means a jurisdiction is miscoded.
Every source this database draws on, dated. Each cell points back to one of these.
This record runs on open data. These files are the exact dataset the page reads — no hidden layer.
All 51 jurisdictions across four systems, every value with its verification level, source and note.
Every jurisdiction and field as a flat CSV.
Every dated, sourced entry — what changed, when, and which direction.