Infertility Statistics

Often when couples are struggling through the problems of infertility they feel that they are alone and without support.

They look at other happy couples with babies and often reflect on how unfair it is that this is happening to them.

But their are scores of childless couples that are going through the same infertility struggles that they are facing.

The statistics support this in that almost seven and a halve million women in America alone are having problems conceiving or carrying a viable pregnancy full term.

And there are in most cases no early warning signs for these women. They don’t have a clue that they are going to have problems with infertility when they try to conceive for the first time.

Some women are lucky and have started their families and was only diagnosed with infertility problems after they went for medical tests for other related problems and they are the lucky ones.

Because in most cases of infertility this is not the case.

Looking at other happy families, we most often don’t know about the struggles behind the scenes that they have had with infertility issues.

Statistics show that 11.9 percent of women will have some kind of infertility treatment before they are 45 years old.

  • There would have been 5.5 percent of women that would have received medical intervention for prevention of miscarriage.
  • Another 4.8 percent of couples would have had diagnostic tests for fertility.
  • With 3.8 percent of women receiving ovulation assisting medication.
  • There is also a 1.1 percent of women that had assistance with their infertility through artificial insemination.
  • 11.8 percent will have problems with carrying a pregnancy to full term.

With age a woman’s ability to fall pregnant, because of the loss of their eggs and the quality of their eggs decreasing, will also have fertility problems.

  • 15.2 percent of women age 35 to 39 years of age would have received some kind of infertility treatment.
  • And 17.3 percent of women between 30 and 34 years old would have some infertility intervention.
  • Women between 40 and 44 have an infertility rate of 27.4 percent.
  • Women between 35 and 39 have an infertility rate of 22.6 percent.
  • Women between 30 and 34 have an infertility rate of 16.9 percent.

Despite the above statistics, falling and maintaining a viable pregnancy does not have to be impossible. This is supported by the following.

38 percent of successful pregnancies was made possible at the age of 31 with the help of IVF.

This dropped to 22 percent by the age of 39.

Although it does drop dramatically to only 10 percent by the age of 43.

Although for woman over 40 the success rate of IVF is only 10 percent it does jump up to a much higher 45 percent success rate if donor eggs from a younger women was used.