[kalleboo]

Are there any good numbers on the fertility among people who actually WANT to conceive, rather than the raw total population rates (which is affected by people who don't want kids - prevented through birth control and abortions)

[deftnerd]

"One 2012 report, which presented the results of the study of over 26,000 French men, showed that the sperm count had fallen by a third between 1989 and 2005. A 2007 report in the UK presented the results of a study done on one city in the country. It showed that sperm counts had declined by over 29 percent between 1989 and 2002. And more recently, in the summer of 2017, a study by scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem analyzed data from over 43,000 North American, European, Australian, and New Zealand men concluded that the average sperm count had fallen by almost 60 percent in the past 40 years. "

From an article at https://www.inquisitr.com/4757173/the-human-race-could-be-in... dated just a few days ago

[scott_karana]

Not what GP was asking. Desire might not even correlate with sperm count!

Maybe decreased desire even leads to count and motility decreases?