Infertility Statistics- Your Chances of Pregnancy Are Better Than You Think!
Posted: Wednesday, December 02, 2009
by Riley Andrews
A review of infertility statistics in the United States exposes some surprising numbers. Seven million three hundred thousand U.S. women suffer from some sort of reproductive impairment. The majority of these women are between the ages of fifteen and forty-four. In the year 2002, nearly twelve percent of all U. S. women from the ages of fifteen to forty-four were treated for infertility of one type or another.
The National Center for Health Statistics reports that healthy women who regularly have intercourse during a given cycle have only a 20% to 40% chance of getting pregnant. However, you should not get too worried; the odds of getting pregnant get much better over a one year period, in fact, the odds are actually pretty good. See the table below:
Age Chances of Conceiving in a Year
Under 25 96%
25-34 86%
35-44 78%
Infertility statistics show that six percent of the women in this country of childbearing age have sought professional advice on infertility. Five and a half percent have sought medical treatment to prevent miscarriages. Nearly another five percent have been through fertility testing, and almost four percent more have been given ovulation drugs. One percent of the childbearing population has had artificial insemination procedures. Impaired fecundity, the ability to conceive and carry a baby to term, affects twelve percent of women from the age of fifteen to forty-four.
As women age, they loose eggs and, therefore, conception becomes more difficult. Slightly more than sixteen percent of childless women between the age of thirty-five and thirty-nine years have had some sort of infertility treatment. Further statistics reveal that slightly above seventeen percent of women without children who are aged thirty to thirty-four years have had some types of infertility procedure and the same group of women ages fifteen to twenty-nine saw three percent treated for infertility.
The infertility statistics of married women without children seem higher, as twenty-seven percent are found to be infertile by ages forty to forty-five, a little more than twenty-two and a half percent by the ages of thirty-five to thirty-nine, and seventeen percent between the ages of thirty to thirty-four. Only eleven percent of married women without children were found to be infertile from the age group of fifteen to twenty-nine years.
There is hope in the infertility statistics, as well. The percent of live births after in vitro fertilization treatment was nearly forty percent in women age thirty-one years. That percentage naturally drops as you track the infertility statistics of older women. At age thirty-nine, the percentage of live births after in vitro fertilization treatment is twenty-two percent. That number drops to under 10% at age forty-three
Women at age forty who used their own eggs during in vitro fertilization had about a ten percent success rate with live birth. However, women in that same age group who used a younger woman's eggs for in vitro fertilization saw that number increase to almost forty-five percent. This infertility statistic, above most others, serves to prove just how relevant a factor age is in the ability to conceive.
Riley Andrews is the chief editor of InfertilityAnswersNow.com an information rich site that discusses the latest issues relating to infertility and the best ways to improve your chances to get pregnant.
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