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. 2022 Jan 16;21:16. doi: 10.1186/s12940-022-00831-5

Table 2.

Distribution of semen parameters for the participants (n = 1554)

Semen parametera Mean (SD) Percentile
10th 25th 50th 75th 90th
Semen volume (ml) 2.7 (1.3) 1.0 2.0 2.0 3.0 5.0
Sperm concentration (106/ml) 62.0 (32.0) 23.3 37.1 58.3 84.4 108.0
Total sperm number (106) 172.2 (129.9) 39.6 79.2 142.6 231.3 341.7
Total motility (%) 55.2 (19.3) 28.5 42.0 56.2 69.3 80.0
Progressive motility (%) 43.8 (16.9) 21.9 31.8 44.1 55.9 65.4
VCL (μm/s) 47.7 (8.9) 37.3 42.1 47.2 53.3 59.2
VSL (μm/s) 29.8 (6.1) 23.0 25.8 29.6 33.6 37.6
VAP (μm/s) 33.5 (6.2) 26.4 29.4 33.4 37.5 41.3
BCF (Hz) 5.1 (0.7) 4.3 4.6 5.1 5.5 6.0
ALH (μm/s) 3.6 (1.1) 2.4 2.9 3.6 4.3 4.9
LIN (%) 61.3 (7.5) 52.1 56.2 61.2 66.4 70.8
STR (%) 85.2 (4.1) 80.2 83.0 85.6 88.0 89.8
WOB (%) 70.3 (6.4) 62.6 65.7 70.2 74.6 78.3
MAD (°) 56.6 (7.9) 46.8 52.0 57.2 62.1 65.9

aALH amplitude of lateral head displacement, BCF beat cross frequency, LIN linearity, MAD mean angular displacement, SD standard deviation, STR straightness, VAP average path velocity, VCL curvilinear velocity, VSL straight line velocity, WOB curvilinear path wobble