Does In Vitro Fertilization Work?

• IVF was introduced in the United States in 1981.
• Since 1985, when we began counting, through 2017

  1,204,594 babies

  have been born in the United States as a result of reported Assisted Reproductive Technology procedures (IVF, GIFT, ZIFT, and combination procedures).
• IVF currently accounts for more than

  99%

  of ART procedures with GIFT, ZIFT and combination procedures making up the remainder.
• The average live delivery rate for IVF in 2015 was

  31.8%

  per ART cycle--a little better than the 20% chance in any given month that a reproductively healthy couple has of achieving a pregnancy and carrying it to term.
• In 2002, approximately

  ONE

  in every hundred babies born in the US was conceived using ART and that trend continues today.
   
• Find out more about Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART)