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. 2020 Jul 31;2020(3):hoaa032. doi: 10.1093/hropen/hoaa032

Table I.

Treatment frequencies after ART in European countries in 2016.

Country IVF clinics in the country
Cycles/million*
IVF clinics Included IVF clinics IUI labs Included IUI labs IVF ICSI FER PGT ED IVM FOR All Women aged 15–45 years Population
Albania 10 1 0 83 63 0 29 0 0 175
Armenia 5 2 6 2 66 112 107 61 346
Austria 26 26 1459 5600 2662 0 9721 5886 1110
Belarus 8 7 10 7 1310 1394 270 7 16 0 0 2997
Belgium 18 18 29 29 2715 13 628 12 052 1100 1163 176 95 30 929 14 136 2738
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Federation part 6 1 0 89 46 135
Bulgaria 35 35 1 1 920 6879 1813 379 1018 11 009 7153 1544
Cyprus 6 6 158 942 325 31 271 1727 9089 2020
Czech Republic 41 40 0 15 020 12 258 5265 32 543
Denmark 19 19 35 33 6319 5703 5059 112 484 0 19 17 696 15 917 3088
Estonia 6 6 6 6 641 1184 927 2 191 0 7 2952 11 515 2245
Finland 17 17 22 22 2756 1970 3661 73 731 0 9191 9116 1673
France 102 102 181 181 22 773 45 214 33 792 1422 1158 70 344 104 773 9066 1619
Germany 134 128 17 594 56 587 25 045 99 226
Greece 39 39 39 39 2304 15 121 4785 1251 4462 2 51 27 976 13 922 2603
Hungary 13 11 1049 3902 632 25 5608
Iceland 1 1 1 1 199 162 229 0 54 0 0 644 9248 1928
Ireland 1 215 231 260 706
Italy 200 200 360 360 7584 46 322 14 990 2844 4359 1460 77 559 7014 1280
Kazakhstan 10 5 994 1671 958 154 683 4460
Latvia 6 3 6 3 352 527 515 7 127 1528
Lithuania 6 5 6 5 295 371 92 0 0 758
Luxembourg 1 1 5 0 312 354 314 0 0 0 0 980 1684
Malta 2 2 2 0 7 273 0 0 0 0 79 359 3624 822
Moldova 4 3 5 3 0 739 181 14 934
Montenegro 5 4 5 4 7 501 58 566
North Macedonia 7 5 0 0 420 2100 288 0 122 0 4 2934
Norway 11 11 11 11 3587 3330 3363 0 0 10 280 10 101 1963
Poland 39 39 0 38 881 16 984 11 375 692 1085 33 299 31 349 816
Portugal 24 24 26 26 2462 3751 2008 127 988 1 28 9365 1726 907
Romania 19 11 19 11 1445 2034 1495 6 29 5009
Russia 199 151 34 058 43 766 31 051 4420 7122 260 558 121 235
Serbia 12 3 12 3 170 93 23 0 0 0 0 286
Slovenia 3 3 3 3 1017 2268 1389 37 7 0 7 4725 12 717 2288
Spain 247 240 366 291 5624 56 640 27 559 10 238 39 530 41 1277 140 909
Sweden 18 17 0 6235 6088 6080 304 282 18 989
Switzerland 27 27 1042 5059 4859 10 960 10 329 1309
The Nederlands 13 13 90 0 6781 7803 12 545 772 27 901 5403 1639
Ukraine 46 38 17 17 1167 9454 6967 1658 1157 8 20 411
UK 82 82 101 101 21 084 23 273 18 311 1433 3494 71 642 68 308 5240 1041
All 1467 1347 1364 1197 156 002 407 222 248 407 27 069 73 927 654 4878 918 159 7794 1410

Treatment cycles in IVF and ICSI refer to initiated cycles.

For Austria, Belgium, Iceland, Lithuania and Malta, treatment cycles IVF refer to aspirations. For Austria, Belgium, Iceland and Lithuania, treatment cycles ICSI refer to aspirations. For Austria and Belgium, the total number of initiated cycles was only available for IVF and ICSI together, being 10 097 and 19 163, respectively.

For the Czech Republic, no distinction between IVF and ICSI is made. All cycles are counted as ICSI. For Belgium, there are 824 extra aspiration cycles for which it is not known whether IVF or ICSI was performed.

Treatment cycles in frozen embryo replacement (FER) refer to thawings.

For Finland, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Sweden and the Netherlands, treatment cycles refer to transfers.

Treatment cycles in preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) contain both fresh and frozen cycles and refer to initiated cycles in the fresh cycles and aspirations in the frozen cycles.

Treatment cycles in egg donation (ED) refer to donation cycles and contain fresh and frozen cycles.

ED fresh: for France and Iceland, treatment cycles refer to aspirations. ED frozen: for France, Iceland, Kazakhstan, Spain, Sweden and the UK, treatment cycles refer to aspirations.

Treatment cycles in IVM refer to aspirations.

Treatment cycles in frozen oocyte replacement (FOR) refer to thawings.