
The number of treatments with egg donation have increased in Spain
In Catalonia there exists an obligatory register (FIVCAT) in which all clinics in assisted reproduction must declare the IVF treatments they carry out. In 2001, 613 IVF egg donor cycles were registered. In 2011, this number increased to 10.146 cycles. Currently, in Catalonia, the same number of IVF cycles with own eggs are carried out as with donor eggs. One of the main reasons for this data in that the demand for these type of treatments occurs at a later stage in life. In 2011 for example, 46% of the women that carried out and IVF were older than 40 years of age (FIVCAT).