Table I.
Treatment frequencies after ART in European countries in 2018.
| IVF clinics in the country |
Cycles/million* |
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| Country | IVF clinics | Included IVF clinics | IUI labs | Included IUI labs | IVF | ICSI | FET | PGT | ED | IVM | FOR | All | Women 15–45 | Population |
| Albania | 8 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 86 | 69 | 21 | 24 | 0 | 2 | 202 | ||
| Armenia | 7 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 786 | 967 | 2156 | 24 | 815 | 4748 | ||||
| Austria | 30 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 1701 | 5703 | 3161 | 0 | 61 | 10 626 | 6611 | 1209 | ||
| Belarus | 8 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 1253 | 2039 | 992 | 69 | 115 | 1 | 4469 | |||
| Belgium | 18 | 18 | 28 | 28 | 2554 | 13 783 | 13 821 | 1397 | 1603 | 167 | 91 | 33 416 | 15 449 | 2891 |
| Bosnia-Herzegovina, Federation part | 10 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 111 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 169 | ||||
| Bulgaria | 37 | 37 | 38 | 38 | 1078 | 8404 | 2469 | 0 | 1140 | 13 091 | 10 580 | 1855 | ||
| Czech Republic | 48 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 1954 | 13 481 | 14 749 | 0 | 5007 | 35 191 | 18 310 | 3294 | ||
| Denmark | 19 | 19 | 54 | 52 | 6479 | 5536 | 6912 | 536 | 1120 | 0 | 33 | 20 616 | 19 181 | 3549 |
| Estonia | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 672 | 1394 | 1044 | 0 | 212 | 0 | 4 | 3326 | 15 948 | 2674 |
| Finland | 16 | 16 | 20 | 20 | 2538 | 1834 | 3736 | 279 | 714 | 9101 | 9241 | 1643 | ||
| France | 103 | 102 | 180 | 179 | 20 821 | 41 021 | 41 258 | 1646 | 1532 | 127 | 479 | 106 884 | ||
| Germany | 140 | 134 | 0 | 0 | 21 007 | 54 719 | 29 334 | 0 | 268 | 105 328 | ||||
| Greece | 43 | 33 | 0 | 31 | 2111 | 14 174 | 5623 | 575 | 4875 | 20 | 76 | 27 454 | ||
| Hungary | 14 | 11 | 21 | 13 | 7819 | 1186 | 0 | 9005 | ||||||
| Iceland | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 301 | 188 | 307 | 0 | 101 | 0 | 1 | 898 | 12 910 | 2614 |
| Ireland | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 291 | 316 | 408 | 609 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1629 | ||
| Italy | 202 | 202 | 345 | 345 | 7871 | 43 215 | 19 587 | 3441 | 5947 | 1318 | 81 379 | 7650 | 1309 | |
| Kazakhstan | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1555 | 4955 | 3489 | 829 | 1187 | 12 015 | 2878 | 641 | ||
| Latvia | 6 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 143 | 439 | 359 | 46 | 83 | 0 | 1 | 1071 | ||
| Lithuania | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 472 | 405 | 201 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1088 | 2335 | 389 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 175 | 560 | 397 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1132 | 8760 | 1868 | |
| Malta | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 249 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 73 | 324 | 3769 | 722 |
| Moldova | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1248 | 210 | 0 | 1458 | |||||
| Montenegro | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 586 | 57 | 0 | 643 | |||||
| North-Macedonia | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 438 | 2199 | 411 | 0 | 151 | 0 | 0 | 3199 | ||
| Norway | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 4208 | 3161 | 4178 | 0 | 0 | 11 547 | 11 109 | 2150 | ||
| Poland | 45 | 45 | 0 | 42 | 263 | 16 221 | 12 423 | 1545 | 1489 | 7 | 375 | 32 323 | 4365 | 841 |
| Portugal | 25 | 25 | 27 | 27 | 2476 | 3740 | 2725 | 436 | 1496 | 9 | 80 | 10 962 | 5890 | 1060 |
| Romania | 20 | 12 | 20 | 12 | 1696 | 2303 | 2174 | 20 | 0 | 20 | 6213 | |||
| Russia | 230 | 182 | 0 | 0 | 38 937 | 53 609 | 43 996 | 8783 | 9804 | 87 | 733 | 155 949 | ||
| Serbia | 18 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 102 | 48 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 168 | ||
| Slovenia | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1213 | 2181 | 1568 | 85 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 5061 | 14622 | 2408 |
| Spain | 247 | 245 | 366 | 313 | 6352 | 42 773 | 31 894 | 20 783 | 37 618 | 9 | 1069 | 140 498 | ||
| Sweden | 18 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 5990 | 5733 | 7167 | 509 | 346 | 19 745 | 10 621 | 1968 | ||
| Switzerland | 28 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 920 | 5450 | 4871 | 356 | 0 | 11 597 | 7351 | 1399 | ||
| The Netherlands | 15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 6363 | 7082 | 13 342 | 414 | 0 | 27 201 | 8721 | 1587 | ||
| Ukraine | 48 | 45 | 17 | 17 | 628 | 11 410 | 10 620 | 4098 | 1552 | 13 | 28 321 | |||
| UK | 86 | 86 | 101 | 101 | 19 489 | 21 233 | 22 505 | 1786 | 3640 | 106 | 792 | 69 551 | 5728 | 1069 |
| All | 1552 | 1422 | 1322 | 1271 | 162837 | 400375 | 309475 | 48294 | 80641 | 532 | 5444 | 1007598 | 7581 | 1402 |
Treatment cycles in IVF and ICSI refer to initiated cycles.
For Austria, Belgium, Denmark and France, treatment cycles refer to aspirations. For Austria and Belgium, the total number of initiated cycles was only available for IVF and ICSI together, being 10 828 and 19 032. For Hungary and Malta, the number refers to aspiration cycles for IVF + ICSI.
For Belgium, there were 875 extra aspiration cycles for which it is not known whether IVF or ICSI was performed. From these, only one had a transfer without pregnancy.
Treatment cycles in frozen embryo transfer (FET) refer to thawings.
For Finland, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Moldova, Sweden and the Netherlands, treatment cycles refer to transfers.
Treatment cycles in PGT contain both fresh and frozen cycles and refer to initiated cycles in the fresh cycles and thawings in the frozen cycles.
For Finland, it refers to initiated cycles and transfers; for France, it refers to aspirations and thawings. Kazakhstan and Lithuania only reported fresh, initiated cycles.
Treatment cycles in egg donation (ED) refer to donation cycles and contain fresh and frozen cycles.
Treatment cycles in IVM refer to aspirations.
Treatment cycles in frozen oocyte replacement (FOR) refer to thawings.
PGT, preimplantation genetic testing.