Here are the reasons why we have few children

No one knows exactly why, but biological, cultural and social factors may explain why we are having fewer children than before. Shorter education levels are perhaps the most important explanations.

Experts in reproduction at Rigshospitalet are in no doubt. Human reproduction is in crisis.

The research group at the Department of Growth and Reproduction has spent their working lives investigating the biological explanations for declining fertility, increasing infertility and problems with sperm quality. Their work on reproductive problems and environmental factors is world-renowned from numerous publications in internationally leading scientific journals since the 1990s.