How many newborns did China have in the past 2019? 14.65 million people. How much? Not much. This figure is 580,000 fewer than in 2018 [1] If 2018 counts 2 million less than 2017 and 630,000 less than 2016, this is the third consecutive year that China ’s total birth population has declined. Who else is giving birth?
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Newlyweds do n’t seem to like the “third party” —the data shows that the proportion of second-born children and above reaches 59.5% of the newly born population in 2019 “> [1] , which means that the highest proportion of children are born to parents with second births.
In addition to natural conception, older second-parent parents can turn to assisted reproductive technology. According to the estimates of the Foresight Institute, the domestic assisted reproductive market demand is about 5 million cases, but the actual medical cycle may be about 1.4 million cases [ 2] —— Without the existence of assisted reproductive technologies such as IVF and artificial insemination, China ’s birth data for 2019 may be even more ugly.
Beggar tide surges overseas
In recent years, many Chinese beggars have traveled overseas, only to hear a baby cry.
In overseas medical institutions, these Chinese people mainly implement “assisted reproduction” in three forms: test-tube babies, frozen eggs / frozen embryos, and surrogacy.
The main business of these overseas assisted reproductive institutions has its own focus. Ray, the founder of “Tian Si Wu Wu”, the leading assisted reproductive in Georgia, told the Zoom Lamp team that 70% of their customers were surrogacy of the Rainbow group; and McKinsey International Health founder Hou Kun told the Zoom Lamp team that 10Among the patients with more than 00 treatment cycles, most of the cases are test-tube babies. The surrogate pregnancy of the Rainbow group accounts for about 15% and frozen eggs account for about 10%.
The essence of IVF technology is “in vitro fertilization”, and three generations of technology have evolved so far. The first generation principle is conventional in vitro fertilization + embryo transfer, and the second generation principle is screening sperm fertilization For embryo transfer, the third generation is to add a whole chromosome genetic screening before embryo transfer. Due to the existence of sex chromosomes, the third-generation IVF technology can determine the sex of the fetus before embryo transfer. Generally, the third-generation test tube business is not allowed.