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Objective@#To explore trends of adolescent induced abortion in Guangzhou, and to provide a reference for female adolescents induced abortion prevention and reproductive health promotion.@*Methods@#A retrospective survey was conducted to collect information regarding basic characteristics, frequency of induced abortion and risk factors of 7 648 adolescents aged 12-24 years who received induced abortion in one maternal and child health care hospital during 2015 to 2019. Chi square test and trend analysis were carried out for data analysis.@*Results@#Adolescents with first pregnancy, nulliparity and first abortion accounted for 61.28 %, 81.63%, 71.82%, respectively; a total of 1 251 adolescents aged 12-19 had induced abortion, accounting for 16.36%, and 6 397 adolescents aged 20-24 had induced abortion, accounting for 83.64%, the number of pregnancy, parity, and induced abortion in aged 20-24 was higher than that in the aged 12-19, and the differences were statistically significant ( P ＜0.05). The proportion of the aged 12-19 showed an overall downward trend in each year, while that of aged 20-24 showed an overall upward trend, and there was a statistically significant difference between the two groups ( χ 2 trend =22.99, P <0.01); the first pregnancy accounted for 61.28 %, and the number of pregnancies showed an overall upward trend ( χ 2 trend =9.06, P <0.05). The proportion of repeated abortion did not increase significantly, but the proportion of recurrent repeated abortion (within one year) showed an upward trend ( χ 2 trend = 6.69, P <0.05). The proportion of adolescents with reproductive tract infection showed a downward trend ( χ 2 trend =4.91, P < 0.01 ).@*Conclusion@#The proportion of induced abortion in first pregnancy and nulliparrous female adolescents is relatively high and showed an upward trend, which may be related to insufficient reproductive health knowledge and the lack of reproductive health education from society, school and family. Necessary resources should be devoted to adolescents with recurrent repeated abortion, as well as adolescent reproductive health education, post abortion and medical care, the decrease in the rate of reproductive tract infection in adolescents suggests that the awareness of reproductive tract infection prevention has been improved.