Pregnancy

Facts and figures

Fertility

• Fertility rate is defined as the number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime, if age-specific fertility remained constant over her reproductive lifespan.
• The total fertility rate across the countries of the European Union is very low. The rate declined from 2.6 in early 1960 to approximately 1.59 by 2009¹.
• According to Fertility Europe, one in six couples needs help to conceive².

Miscarriage

• More than one in five pregnancies ends in miscarriage. Most miscarriages happen in the first three months of pregnancy – but they can happen up to the 24th week. Pregnancy loss after 24 weeks is known as stillbirth³.

Ectopic pregnancies

• One in one hundred pregnancies is ectopic⁴. This means the pregnancy is developing outside the womb – most often in one of the Fallopian tubes.

Congenital anomalies

• In Europe, approximately 25% of neo-natal deaths are the result of congenital anomalies¹.

Low birth weight babies

• In the United States and Europe, 8% of infants are born with a low birth weight⁴.