Law 40 is 20 years old, 217 thousand children born in Italy - Healthcare. It is equal to the population of a city like Messina or Padua.
The number of treatments carried out every year has doubled, as have pregnancy rates. The average age of women who undergo PMA cycles is also growing: it went from 34 years in 2005 to 37 years in 2022 (in Europe in 2019 it was 35 years). The share of women over 40, which was 20.7% in 2005, reached 33.9% in 2022.