Fertility Facts and Figures

01 November 2020

This article has been written and medically approved by Pharmacist Conor McSorley GPhC Reg No. 2223070

It is estimated that infertility affects one in every seven heterosexual couples in the UK.
	Did you know that 1 in 5 couples take longer than 12 months to conceive, and in that first year 50% of women worry about the time it is taking them to get pregnant.
Half of couples try to conceive on the wrong day.
	Only one third of European women track their cycle.
77% of women in the US who used a home ovulation test agree that it helped them to get pregnant
	The average age of a women having her first child has gone up from the early 20s in the 1970s to early 30s in 2017, with up to 90% of women saying they want to achieve their personal goals before getting pregnant.