Projections of impaired fecundity among women in the United States: 1995 to 2020.
OBJECTIVE
To determine the number of women aged 15 to 44 years with impaired fecundity every 5 years from 1995 to 2020.


METHODS
Data are used from cycle IV of the National Survey of Family Growth conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics. Population projections prepared by the U.S. Census Bureau are used for the expected population base for 1995 to 2020. Prospective demographic projection analysis is used to estimate the number of women with impaired fecundity.


METHODS
The National Survey of Family Growth interviewed 8,450 women aged 15 to 44 years as of March 15, 1988.


METHODS
Number of women with impaired fecundity.


RESULTS
The number of women with impaired fecundity may drop from 5.1 million in 1995 to 4.7 million in 2015 and then rise to 4.8 to 5.9 million in 2020.


CONCLUSIONS
The age structure of the population will cause the absolute number of women with impaired fecundity in the United States to increase slowly, if at all, over the next 25 years.
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Department of Demography, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., USA.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011159:Population Surveillance; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology