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Assisted reproductive technology in Australia and New Zealand 2012

Assisted reproductive technology in Australia and New Zealand 2012^[1] November 2014

• 70,082 assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatment cycles performed in Australia (64,905 ) and New Zealand (5,177),
• 3,590 babies born (including 13,312 liveborn babies) following ART treatment in 2012.
• an increase of 5.8% for Australia and a decrease of 0.2% for New Zealand on 2011.
• 13.7 cycles per 1,000 women of reproductive age (15–44 years) in Australia
• Women used their own oocytes or embryos (autologous) in 95.2% of treatments, and 34.8% of all cycles used frozen/thawed embryos.
• 36,171 women who undertook 66,710 autologous fresh and/or thaw cycles in Australia and New Zealand in 2012.
• average, 1.8 cycles per woman were undertaken in 2012, with more cycles per woman in Australia (1.9 cycles per woman) than in New Zealand (1.5 cycles per woman).
• increase in cycles where preimplantation genetic diagnosis was performed, from 2.0% of cycles in 2011 to 3.7% of cycles in 2012.
• Maternal Age
  • women aged under 30, the live delivery rate was 26.0% for both autologous fresh and thaw cycles.
  • women aged over 44, the live delivery rate was 0.9% and 4.6% for autologous fresh and thaw cycles respectively.

Links: Assisted Reproductive Technology | 2011 summary | 2010 summary | Reports

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