We cite primary and authoritative sources, ESHRE, SART/ASRM, HFEA, national legislation and the EPF FERTIL Atlas, over clinic marketing, and we date every figure. Laws and prices change; if you spot something out of date, the date on each guide tells you when we last checked.
Primary references
- ESHRE — ART in Europe 2019 & 2020 (European registries) Per-cycle, per-transfer and donor-egg pregnancy rates; the gap between registry and marketed figures.
- SART CORS — US national IVF outcomes 2024 & 2022 Live-birth rate by maternal age band, per intended egg retrieval and per transfer.
- ASRM — 2024 US IVF cycle and birth totals National cycle and live-birth context (449,772 cycles, 97,549 live births).
- Shenfield et al. 2010, Human Reproduction 25(6):1361 — ESHRE cross-border care study Why patients travel: legal restriction is the leading driver (~55%, up to 70–80% in restrictive countries).
- Gürtin 2011, RBMO (PMID 21962527) & PMC4221516 — Turkey ART law Turkey bans all donor conception and surrogacy; 2010 law also prohibits travel abroad for donor conception.
- Spain — Law 14/2006 on assisted reproduction Eligibility for single women and female couples (ROPA); strictly anonymous donation; no surrogacy.
- EPF FERTIL Atlas 2024 (European Policy for Reproduction, ESHRE EIM data) Comparative eligibility, donation anonymity and age limits across European countries (Greece, Portugal, Poland and more).
- Greece — Law 4958/2022 Maximum maternal age raised to 54 (permit required 50–54); eligibility for single women.
- HFEA (UK regulator) — donor information & access rules Identity-release donation since 2005; legal access for single women and same-sex couples at licensed clinics.
- US own-egg cycle price: Inception Fertility, Mar 2026 (Advanced Fertility Center of Chicago blog) Base IVF cycle $12,000–$18,000 (monitoring, retrieval, lab work; medication not included); medication $1,500–$7,000; estimated total with medication and add-ons $20,000–$25,000+. One clinic network’s estimate, not a national average.
- UK own-egg cycle price: Seen Fertility, 2025–26 data Average true cost of an IVF package £4,890 excluding medication (medication averages £1,500); £6,939 with fertility tests for both partners and medication; £8,314 with ICSI. Averages, not a range.
- Spain own-egg cycle price: Ovu, Dec 2025 Own-egg IVF €4,300–€6,000 before medication (fee covers monitoring, egg collection, lab work, embryo transfer and often ICSI); medication about €1,000–€2,000 on top.
- Czech Republic own-egg cycle price: Czech clinic price lists, Nov 2026 Published own-egg IVF prices before medication: Prague Fertility Centre from €2,500 (excludes anaesthesia, STD tests and add-on lab methods); Unica from €2,900; Pronatal from €3,000; Gennet €3,190 (includes ICSI, anaesthesia, blastocyst culture and transfer; medication excluded); Reprofit €3,245 (includes ICSI and blastocyst culture; anaesthesia €205 extra; price list valid from 1 Jan 2026). Read on each clinic's own price page, 4 Nov 2026.
- Greece own-egg cycle price: Greek clinic price lists, Nov 2026 Published own-egg IVF/ICSI cycle prices before medication: Serum IVF (Athens) €3,600 plus a €20 committee fee per transfer (monitoring, retrieval, ICSI, blastocyst culture, transfer; medication and blood tests excluded); Newlife IVF Greece (Thessaloniki) €3,860 (includes sedation, ICSI, blastocyst culture and first transfer; tests, freezing and medication excluded). Most Greek clinics quote on request only. Read 4 Nov 2026.
- Mexico — Bioderecho (Universidad de Murcia), 2024: assisted reproduction in Mexican law No federal assisted-reproduction law; bills introduced but not passed; COFEPRIS germ-cell licences (37 private facilities in Aug 2024).
- Mexico — GIRE, assisted reproduction chapter COFEPRIS sanitary licensing; civil codes of Mexico City and the State of Mexico and the Michoacán family code limit techniques to spouses.
- Mexico — Esparza-Pérez 2019, Gaceta Médica de México No national donor-anonymity rule; clinics set donation criteria; COFEPRIS keeps no donor register.
- Mexico — SCJN Amparo en Revisión 619/2017 (summary) Marital status treated as a suspect category in an IVF access case against a public hospital programme.
- Mexico own-egg prices — The Fertility Center Mexico (Tijuana) Average all-inclusive IVF about $9,000 (contents listed on the page); read Nov 2026.
- Reciprocal IVF prices (Nov 2026) CNY Fertility (US market range and own price), Eugin Spain (from €6,125), Ferticentro Portugal (€5,500), ABC IVF and Create Fertility UK, Fertilidad Integral Mexico (from MXN 154,000).
Own-egg cycle prices are quoted in one unit everywhere on this site: one own-egg IVF cycle before medication, each from the dated price guide listed above (re-checked October 2026). They are published prices, not regulated tariffs. Donor-cycle cost figures are advertised prices triangulated across multiple comparison sources, not government or insurer data, and are labelled as estimates throughout the site. Czech and Greek own-egg prices were added in November 2026 from the clinics' own price lists. Several country profiles (for example North Cyprus, Portugal and Ukraine) are added as we verify them to the same standard.