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• 20 per cent of Danes aged 25 to 44 who have tried to conceive have at some stage experienced infertility. This is on a level with previous Danish population studies, even though around one in eight children are today born as a result of fertility treatments. 
• These figures are mirrored globally. A recent global systematic review and meta-analysis of infertility in population studies show that the global average prevalence of infertility is 18 per cent when calculated among all participants in the study, the majority of whom had attempted to conceive a child or children.
• Infertility is a common public health issue with serious personal and societal consequences, according to the study.
• Infertility is a health issue that the World Health Organisation defines as the failure to achieve a pregnancy after 12 months or more of regular unprotected sexual intercourse.
• Danish citizens who have experienced infertility generally have poorer health and more signs of stress – factors that can either be the reason for or consequences of infertility.
• Nearly half of people who have experienced infertility have not had the children they had wished for (skal det kanskje være "have not managed to have children at 
• Many suffering from infertility manage to become parents after fertility treatments. Fertility treatments consist of different techniques to make the woman pregnant, but they do not treat the underlying reasons for infertility.
• Around 12 per cent of all children in Denmark in 2021 were born as a result of fertility treatment.

Source: The study “Infertility – Thematic Report, Health Profile for the Capital Region and Municipalities 2021”, published in March 2024.