The development of in-Vitro-Fertilisationin Germany and worldwide

“Louise Brown, the first child after artificial insemination, was born in Great Britain in 1978. In the spring of 1982, the first German IVF baby Oliver was born at the Erlangen University Hospital. Since then, around 400,000 children have been born in Germany after artificial insemination, worldwide There are 6 million. There are around 140 IVF centers in the Bundes Republic.

The birth rate in Germany has been very low for decades and is 1.4 children per woman. However, Germans actually want more children (at the end of the 1980s even 2 children per woman).