China likely to lead the world ART scene with 800,000 annual cycle: ESHRE NEWS

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The world’s total IVF babies have reached 7 million says a Preliminary Global Data report presented at Geneva by David Adamson on behalf of International Committee Monitoring Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ICMART).

Some interesting statistics as reported in September issue of Focus on Reproduction by European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE).

The growth of ART is very explosive, with more than 1.5 million cycles reported as per 2013 data.

Japan still dominates the world with 368,627 cycles recorded for 2013, but China is soon predicted to take over with an estimated 800,000 cycles annually.

About ¾ of world total assisted reproductive activity takes place in ten countries from Europe, America and Australia. Statistics from Asian, Middle eastern and African countries is scarce and patchy.

ICSI is a huge favorite among physicians from Europe and far exceeds the number of IVF cycles (607,000 cycles over 275,000 cycles).

ICSI also remains the preferred procedure in the Middle East, Latin America, and North America.

The global delivery rate remains at 20%, with a slightly higher rate of 22% in the freeze-thaw cycles. The number of ‘freeze-thaw’ cycles are steadily increasing over ‘fresh’ cycles.

In 80% of cycles in North America, Europe, Asia number of embryo transferred were 1 or 2 and 100% in Australia/New Zealand.

An estimated 2.4 million cycles were performed in the year 2013, up to 530,000 babies born with an overall cumulative delivery rate of 27.4%.

More than 25% of women were 40 years and more in 2013 and mean number of transferred embryos was 1.81.

Freeze all protocols accounted for 6% of all reported cycles.

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