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52 IVF Statistics for 2026 (India and Global)

CompareIVF Editorial Team

One in six people worldwide will experience infertility at some point in their life, and yet most of what circulates online about IVF, from success rates to cost to how many clinics are even legitimate, traces back to a handful of blogs quietly repeating each other rather than the studies, regulators and registries that actually produced the numbers.

We went to the primary source for every statistic below: government health bodies, peer-reviewed journals, national fertility registries and named market research firms, not aggregator roundups. Where we found numbers commonly repeated online that didn't hold up against the original source, including a widely-cited Rajasthan government scheme we could not confirm exists, we say so rather than repeat them. Every figure is dated and linked back to where it came from.

This page focuses on India, drawing on global data (mostly US and UK, where the reporting infrastructure is more mature) only where India-specific data doesn't yet exist.

Key Takeaways

  • Roughly 17.5% of adults worldwide, about 1 in 6 people, experience infertility in their lifetime (WHO, Apr 2023)
  • The mean out-of-pocket cost of one IVF cycle in India is ₹1,10,104 in public hospitals and ₹2,30,668 in private hospitals (Indian Journal of Medical Research, May 2026)
  • A single private IVF cycle in the UK costs about £5,000, roughly 5x an Indian private hospital's out-of-pocket cost (HFEA, Sep 2026)
  • Live birth rate per IVF cycle using a patient’s own eggs ranges from 53.2% under age 35 to just 4.1% over age 42 (SART National Summary Report, Sep 2026)
  • India's National ART & Surrogacy Registry lists 4,319 officially registered ART clinics nationally, based on our own analysis of the government's clinic-list exports (CompareIVF analysis of National ART & Surrogacy Registry data, Jul 2026)
  • The share of US embryo transfers using a single embryo rather than multiple rose from 24.8% in 2012 to 82.9% in 2021 (2021 CDC ART National Summary Report, Dec 2024)
  • Among ART-conceived infants born in 2021, 89.3% were singletons, 10.4% were twins and 0.3% were triplets or more (2021 CDC ART National Summary Report, Dec 2024)
  • A widely-cited meta-analysis found global mean sperm concentration fell 51.6% between 1973 and 2018 (Levine et al., Nov 2022). Though an independent 2024 study of fertile American men found no such decline, so treat this as contested rather than settled.
  • Indian insurers are permitted to permanently exclude IVF, ICSI and other assisted reproduction from health coverage under IRDAI’s standard exclusion code Excl17 (IRDAI, Sep 2019)
  • IVF does not qualify for a Section 80DDB tax deduction in India, contrary to a common online claim; the provision covers only a fixed list of neurological, cancer and blood conditions (Income Tax Department, Sep 2026)
  • Elective egg freezing in the US grew nearly fourfold, from 4,153 patients in 2014 to 16,436 in 2021, but only 5.7% of those patients had returned to use their eggs by the 5-7 year mark (American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Aug 2025)
  • 15.5% of clinical pregnancies from 2021 US ART cycles ended in miscarriage (2021 CDC ART National Summary Report, Dec 2024)
  • Across 62 studies and over 330,000 patients globally, 36% of people discontinue fertility treatment before achieving a pregnancy (International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, Shen et al., Feb 2026)

The Global and Indian IVF Market

India's IVF market is still small next to the US or Europe, but it's growing roughly twice as fast as the global market, and it's starting to draw patients from outside the country too.

How big is India's IVF market right now?

  • A separate estimate puts India's IVF market at $998.09 million in 2025, projected to reach $3,462.67 million by 2034 at a 14.82% CAGR (IMARC Group, Jan 2026). The roughly 40% gap between this and Custom Market Insights' figure below is a reminder that market-size estimates vary significantly by methodology; we're presenting both rather than picking a winner.
  • India's IVF services market was valued at $1,410.11 million in 2025, forecast to reach $4,915.01 million by 2034 at a 16.23% CAGR (Custom Market Insights, Aug 2026)

How fast is it growing compared to the world?

  • The global IVF market was valued at $28.97 billion in 2025, projected to reach $53.25 billion by 2034 at a 7.00% CAGR (Fortune Business Insights, Aug 2026). Roughly half India's projected growth rate on either India estimate above, reflecting India's earlier stage of market maturity.

Is India becoming a fertility tourism destination?

  • India recorded 507,244 foreign nationals arriving specifically for medical treatment in 2025, up from 182,945 in 2020, with fertility treatment officially listed among the specialized services (alongside cardiac surgery, oncology and transplants) sought by international medical-value-travel patients (Press Information Bureau, Government of India, May 2026)

Who Struggles With Infertility

Infertility is common everywhere, income level barely changes the odds, and the causes split fairly evenly between male and female factors, though “unexplained” remains a real category too.

How common is infertility worldwide?

  • Lifetime infertility prevalence is nearly identical across income levels: 17.8% in high-income countries versus 16.5% in low- and middle-income countries, based on a pooled analysis of 133 studies (Human Reproduction Open, Cox et al., Nov 2022)

How common is infertility in India specifically?

  • Among currently married Indian women aged 15-49 (n=512,408), primary infertility prevalence was 3.28% and secondary infertility prevalence was 13.9%, per an analysis of National Family Health Survey-5 (2019-21) data (Journal of Reproduction & Infertility, Perumal et al., Mar 2026)

What causes female infertility most often?

  • Among 8,993 Indian women aged 18-40 studied nationally, PCOS prevalence was 19.6% by Rotterdam criteria, 13.6% by AE-PCOS criteria, and 7.2% by NIH criteria (ICMR-funded PCOS study, JAMA Network Open, Oct 2024). The range reflects how much the diagnostic criteria used changes the count.
  • Endometriosis affects an estimated 10% (190 million) of women and girls of reproductive age worldwide (WHO fact sheet, Oct 2025)
  • Tubal disease accounts for 25-35% of female-factor infertility cases (ASRM Practice Committee, Fertility and Sterility, May 2021)

What causes male infertility, and is sperm count really declining?

  • A male factor is solely responsible for about 20% of infertile-couple cases and contributes to another 30-40% (AUA/ASRM Male Infertility Guideline, Aug 2024)
  • This decline hypothesis is contested: an independent 2024 meta-analysis of 11,787 fertile American men over the same era found no clinically significant change in sperm concentration (Lewis et al., Fertility and Sterility, Aug 2024). We're presenting both sides rather than treating the decline as settled fact.

IVF Success Rates

Age is still the single biggest factor in whether an IVF cycle works, and it isn't close. The difference between under-35 and over-42 is more than tenfold.

In 2021, roughly 238,126 patients underwent 413,776 ART cycles at 453 reporting US clinics, resulting in 91,906 live-birth deliveries (2021 CDC ART National Summary Report, Dec 2024)

What's the live birth rate per cycle, by age?

Does a frozen embryo transfer work as well as a fresh one?

  • Among 228,171 first ART cycles without genetic testing in the SART-CORS database (2014-2020), the live birth rate was 48.3% for frozen embryo transfer vs. 39.8% for fresh embryo transfer (Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology, Apr 2024). The frozen-transfer advantage grew with age.

How many cycles does it typically take?

  • Among 24,650 women over age 42 who underwent 58,132 autologous ART cycles (2014-2020), the maximal cumulative live birth rate was 9.7% at age 43, declining to 1.3% by age 50, with outcomes plateauing after the first cycle for women 47 and older (Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology, Oct 2023)

The Real Cost of IVF in India

The number everyone quotes for "IVF cost in India" usually comes from a clinic’s own marketing page. The one study that actually measured what patients spend found a very different, more precise picture.

What does one IVF cycle actually cost?

  • Annual out-of-pocket spend on infertility diagnosis and management (not full IVF) has a median of ₹7,513, ranging ₹1,711-₹17,595 depending on cause and facility type (BMJ Open, Aug 2026)
  • By cause, median annual out-of-pocket cost is highest for uterine factor infertility at ₹9,513, compared with ₹7,020 for male infertility and ₹7,168 for tubal block (BMJ Open, Aug 2026)
  • A single IUI cycle costs ₹8,272-₹8,887 in the same study population (BMJ Open, Aug 2026)
  • Human resources (staff time) account for 63-83% of total infertility-care delivery costs across the facilities studied, more than diagnostics or consumables combined (BMJ Open, Aug 2026)

How does India's cost compare abroad?

No verified primary source exists for India-specific ICSI/PGT-A/donor-egg add-on pricing. Every figure we found traced to a clinic marketing page, not a study or regulator, so we dropped it rather than cite a low-authority source. See our IVF insurance coverage in India guide for a fuller cost discussion.

How IVF Is Performed Today

ICSI and single-embryo transfer have both become the default rather than the exception in the countries with the best reporting data.

How often is ICSI used instead of conventional IVF?

  • 77.9% of US embryo transfers in 2021 involved at least one embryo fertilized via ICSI, ranging from 81.9% (under 35) to 67.3% (over 40) by patient age (2021 CDC ART National Summary Report, Dec 2024)

Are clinics moving toward single-embryo transfers?

See Key Takeaways: the share using single embryo transfer rose from 24.8% in 2012 to 82.9% in 2021.

How common is genetic testing before transfer?

  • 52.4% of all US embryo transfers in 2021 included at least one embryo that underwent preimplantation genetic testing, ranging from 47.7% (under 35) to 59.5% (38-40) by age (2021 CDC ART National Summary Report, Dec 2024)

Is egg freezing becoming more common?

See Key Takeaways: elective egg freezing grew nearly fourfold from 2014 to 2021, though very few patients have returned to use what they froze.

Paying for IVF: Insurance and Government Support

If you're budgeting for IVF in India, the honest starting assumption is that insurance won't help and a commonly-repeated tax break doesn't apply, but two lesser-known government schemes actually do cover it.

Does health insurance cover IVF in India?

  • This exclusion remains unchanged: IRDAI's 2024 Master Circular on Health Insurance Business contains zero mentions of infertility, meaning the 2019 permanent exclusion is still the operative rule (IRDAI Master Circular on Health Insurance Business, May 2024)

Is IVF eligible for a tax deduction?

See Key Takeaways: IVF does not qualify for a Section 80DDB deduction, contrary to a common online claim.

Do CGHS and ECHS cover IVF?

  • CGHS reimburses up to 3 fresh IVF cycles, capped at ₹65,000 per cycle, for beneficiaries aged 21-39 with no living child, after conventional treatment has failed and with a government-hospital specialist’s recommendation (Ministry of Health & Family Welfare Office Memorandum, Nov 2011)
  • ECHS also covers IVF treatment under its own policy (ECHS official FAQs, Apr 2023)

A widely-repeated claim that Rajasthan runs a "Mukhyamantri Nishulk IVF Yojana" for BPL families could not be confirmed against any Rajasthan government document. We could only find a 2024 news report of a proposal, never confirmed as enacted. See our government schemes guide for the fuller, corrected picture.

India's ART Regulatory Landscape

This is the one section built on data nobody else has published: our own analysis of the government's official clinic registration lists, cross-checked against the same registry data behind CompareIVF's own Verified clinic badges.

Methodology note: figures below come from our own analysis of official state-wise clinic registration exports downloaded directly from India’s National ART & Surrogacy Registry portal (registry.artsurrogacy.gov.in) between December 2025 and July 2026. This is not a single-day census, but the most complete compiled dataset available, since the registry itself does not publish a live national counter.

How many ART clinics are officially registered in India?

What's the difference between a Level 1 and Level 2 registered clinic?

CompareIVF marks clinics with a confirmed government registration as Verified, with the tier shown on their profile. You can filter clinics by Verified status here.

What changed under India's 2021 ART and Surrogacy laws?

Outcomes: Multiples, Miscarriage, and Child Health

Twin pregnancies are still far more common after IVF than after natural conception, mostly a legacy of multi-embryo transfer, and the long-term health picture for IVF-conceived children is reassuring on most measures but not every one.

How often does IVF result in twins or triplets?

See Key Takeaways: 89.3% of ART-conceived infants born in 2021 were singletons, 10.4% twins, 0.3% triplets or more.

What's the miscarriage rate after IVF?

Are IVF-conceived children as healthy long-term?

  • A population-wide cohort in Victoria, Australia covering over 585,000 births, including more than 11,000 IVF-conceived children, found 13.6% of IVF-conceived children were assessed as developmentally vulnerable at school entry, compared with 13.9% of naturally conceived children (no meaningful difference) (PLoS Medicine, Jan 2023)
  • A 2025 meta-analysis pooling 113 studies covering over 768,000 ART-conceived children and 40 million naturally conceived children found the rate of congenital anomalies rose from 2.48% in naturally conceived children to 3.45% in ART-conceived children (a relative increase of about 39%, but an absolute increase of roughly 1 percentage point) (Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, May 2025)
  • The same analysis found ICSI specifically carries a further 9% higher relative risk of congenital anomaly than conventional IVF, while transferring a day-5 blastocyst rather than a day-3 embryo was associated with a 26% lower risk (Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, May 2025)
  • Imprinting disorders like Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome are reported at roughly 10 times the rate in ART-conceived children compared with naturally conceived children (a shift from about 1 in 12,000 births to roughly 1 in 1,100) (Seminars in Reproductive Medicine, Aug 2009). Both figures represent rare conditions.

The Emotional Side of IVF

The physical process gets most of the attention, but the psychological toll of IVF, and how often people stop before finishing, is measured too, even if it's rarely reported alongside the success-rate statistics.

How common is anxiety or depression during treatment?

  • Among 2,465 women undergoing IVF-embryo transfer, 27.18% showed some level of depression and 18.46% showed some level of anxiety (Scientific Reports (Nature), Wang et al., May 2025)
  • Among 1,712 women undergoing assisted reproduction treatment at a Chinese fertility center, anxiety incidence was 25.2% and depression incidence was 31.3% (PLOS ONE, Wang, Tang & Wang, Apr 2023). We're citing both studies separately rather than averaging them, since they measured different populations at different treatment stages.

How many people stop treatment before achieving a pregnancy?

See Key Takeaways: 36% of patients discontinue fertility treatment before achieving a pregnancy, based on a 62-study meta-analysis.

Methodology and Sources

Every statistic on this page was traced to the entity that actually produced the data, a government body, regulator, academic journal, or named market research firm, and independently verified by fetching the source directly to confirm the number, and a date, are actually stated there. We dropped several commonly-repeated figures that we could not verify this way, including a specific PGT-A success-rate comparison, 2022-specific CDC figures published only via a dashboard we couldn't access, and a Rajasthan government IVF scheme that appears to exist only as a news report of a proposal. Where two named sources disagreed (mainly on market size), we present both rather than pick a winner. This page will be refreshed monthly for fast-moving figures (market size, registry counts) and reviewed annually for structural data (success rates, regulatory detail).

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About CompareIVF Editorial Team

The CompareIVF editorial team combines fertility medicine expertise with investigative journalism to help patients make informed decisions about their fertility journey.