fertility
In 2022, the number of live births in the European Union reached its lowest level since 1960, according to the latest available data. That year, only 3.88 million babies were born in the EU, marking the first time the figure fell below 4 million. The fertility rate also declined, nearing levels last seen two decades ago. The EU had one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, defined as the number of live births per woman. How do fertility rates compare across different parts of Europe? And how has the fertility rate change in Europe compared to the rest of the world? There has been a downw...
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An overwhelming majority of countries globally will not have high enough fertility rates to sustain population size by 2100, according to newly published research in The Lancet. The latest projections further highlight a "dramatic decline" in global fertility throughout this century that experts said has both "potential pros and cons". Researchers led by the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in the US found that three-quarters of countries will not have fertility rates high enough to sustain population size by 2050. In data: The EU faces a major demo...
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Alabama lawmakers facing public pressure to restart in vitro fertilisation (IVF) services in the state advanced legislation to shield providers from the fallout of a court ruling that equated frozen embryos to children. Committees in the state Senate and House on Tuesday approved identical bills that would protect providers from lawsuits and criminal prosecution for the “damage or death of an embryo” during IVF services. The state's three major IVF providers paused services after the Alabama Supreme Court's ruling last month because of the sweeping liability concerns it raised. Lawmakers are a...
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Geneva (AFP) - Rather than fixating on the impact of the world's soaring population, the world should look at women's reproductive rights to shore up "demographic resilience," the UN said Wednesday. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) -- the UN's sexual and reproductive health agency -- acknowledged there was widespread anxiety over the size of the world's population, which is expected to peak at around 10.4 billion during the 2080s. But the UNFPA said the focus should be on giving women more power to control when and how they have children. "The question is: 'Can everyone exercise thei...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A US woman and her husband are suing a fertility clinic they say implanted a stranger's baby, lawyers said Monday. When Daphna and Alexander Cardinale first saw their newborn, conceived through IVF, they noticed the baby girl had jet-black hair and a much darker complexion than anyone in their family. A DNA test several months later revealed the girl born in September 2019 was not related to either of them, and they had been raising another couple's child. Lawyers in Los Angeles say two laboratories connected by one doctor switched the embryos of two entirely separate coupl...
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