2023-10-07 07:00:16
DECRYPTION – Although environmental effects are the subject of more and more studies, they are not the only factors of infertility.
In April, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a broad report on infertility concluding that it was“a major public health problem”. One in six people in the world have faced difficulties in having a child during their lifetime. If the problem is universal – its prevalence varies very little from one region of the world to another – it is even more visible in developed countries where the fertility rate has been declining sharply for several decades.
France is certainly doing a little better than the rest of Europe, with a fertility index higher than the continent’s average (1.82 children per woman compared to 1.5), but this is falling and has fallen below the generation renewal threshold (2.1 children per woman in our country). “In Italy, the situation is even more critical, since with a current fertility index of 1.2 children per woman, the country could lose 12 million inhabitants, out of a current population of 60 million…
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