Sexual and reproductive health – Assisted fertility treatments

Number of fertility treatments has remained stable

In 2023, approximately 14,500 fertility treatments were initiated. According to preliminary data, approximately 14,300 treatments were started in 2024, a decline of 1.6 per cent from the previous year.

According to THL’s statistics on assisted fertility treatments, the total number of treatments has remained relatively stable in recent years, and the number seems to have stabilised at a level slightly higher than in the years preceding the COVID-19 epidemic. The number of treatments was exceptionally high in 2021, most likely due to the efforts to reduce the backlog caused by the COVID-19 epidemic.

According to the preliminary data for 2024, the public sector accounted for 61% of all treatments. The public sector accounted for 40% of the treatments using donated gametes.

A total of 19.9 per cent of all fertility treatments in 2023 resulted in the birth of a child. The proportion is slightly higher than in 2022. The treatments led to 2,920 children being born, which is an estimated 6.7 per cent of all children born (5.9% in 2022).

Effective care with new register data

THL’s new national register on assisted fertility treatments began its operations on 1 January 2026. In the next few years, the new register will replace THL’s current aggregate-level data collection on fertility treatments. THL collects assisted fertility treatment cycles-specific data on all fertility treatments performed in Finland to the register on assisted fertility treatments.

The cycle-based register will serve as a key source of information for monitoring the impacts and quality of assisted fertility treatments. The register helps the long-term follow-up of fertility treatments and the children born as a result of them, and supports the assessment of the development of treatments in the fertility sector and their cost-effectiveness.

About the data in more detail

• Read the entire statistical report (Julkari)
• Statistics in the database report
• Indicator data in Sotkanet

Background information

• Statistical quality report
• Description of Statistical Data (Data resources catalogue)
• Description of Register Data (Data resources catalogue)
• Instructions for submitting data (in Finnish)

Source

Assisted Fertility Treatments 2023–2024
Statistical Report 21/2025, 24.4.2025.
Official Statistics of Finland, Assisted fertility treatments. THL.

Description of the statistics

The statistic contains information on fertility treatments, the resulting pregnancies, and subsequent births. Figures on fertility treatments are collected annually from all clinics in Finland that provide fertility treatment. They contain information on insemination treatments and test tube fertilisation, as well as treatment with the patient's own, or donated gametes.

The information has been collected since 1992. The data are presented at the national level. Clinic-specific data are not published. The fertility treatment statistics do not contain personal data on assisted fertility treatment recipients.

Update schedule

Assisted fertility treatment statistics are published annually in the spring, at which time the previous year's preliminary data and the preceding year's final data are published.

The more exact publication time can be found in the publication calendar.
Publication calendar for statistics