Egg Freezing Statistics: 2026 Report

Egg Freezing Cycles by Year

In the table below, we list the egg freezing cycles SART reported each year from 2014 to 2024, with the change from the year before, all cycles reported, and egg freezing's share of the total.

Our researchers drew three conclusions from the yearly data:

• We found that the count rose in every year of the series, including 2020, when it grew 6.0% to 16,786.
• Our data showed that egg freezing's share of all SART cycles nearly tripled, from 3.2% in 2014 to 9.0% in 2024.
• We found that the 2.1% rise in preliminary 2024 data is the smallest in the series, after a 35.2% jump in 2023, and final 2024 figures will show whether growth has leveled off.

Egg Freezing Compared With Embryo and Donor Egg Banking

In the table below, we set egg freezing beside the two other banking categories in SART's reports: embryo banking for fertility preservation, in which eggs are fertilized and frozen as embryos, and donor egg banking. SART's reports print donor egg banking counts from 2016 on.

Our team took three findings from the banking data:

• We found that egg freezing's share of fertility preservation banking rose from 60.9% in 2014 to 75.8% in 2024, and has stayed between 74.4% and 78.3% since 2017.
• Our data showed that embryo banking for fertility preservation also grew, by 217.2% from 2014 to 2024, but egg freezing grew more than twice as fast.
• We found that donor egg banking grew 211.4% from 2016 to 2024, to 2,812 cycles, and fell only in 2020.

Egg Freezing by Age

In the table below, we compare the ages of women freezing eggs across the three years SART's national summary breaks out, with each group's count, its share of the year's cycles, and its growth from 2022 to 2024.

Our researchers drew three conclusions from the age data:

• We found that cycles for women under 35 grew 54.2% between 2022 and 2024, faster than any older group.
• Our data showed that women 38 and older made up 22.5% of 2024 cycles, down from 25.6% in 2022, even as their count rose.
• We found that UCLA's study saw the same shift in elective freezing, with the average age at freezing falling from 36.0 in 2014 to 34.9 in 2021.

Egg Freezing by Age Compared With IVF Birth Rates

In the table below, we set each age group's 2024 egg freezing and embryo banking counts beside SART's final 2023 live birth rate per intended egg retrieval for IVF with a woman's own eggs. That IVF rate does not measure frozen eggs, but it is the national figure that shows how a woman's age when her eggs are retrieved affects her chance of a birth.

Our team took three findings from the age and birth rate data:

• We found that the chance of a birth per IVF retrieval falls from 53.2% for women under 35 to 26.2% at 38 to 40 and 4.1% over 42, which is why age at freezing matters.
• Our data showed that 77.5% of 2024 egg freezing cycles were for women under 38, the two age groups with IVF birth rates of 39.9% or higher.
• We found that women 41 and older lean more toward embryo banking: egg freezing made up 62.4% and 59.7% of their preservation banking, against 77.6% for women under 35.

How Often Women Return to Use Frozen Eggs

In the table below, we summarize what a UCLA study of SART data found when it followed women who froze eggs electively from 2014 to 2016 for five to seven years, along with how elective freezing changed from 2014 to 2021.

Our researchers drew three conclusions from the return data:

• We found that women who froze in their late 30s and early 40s were the most likely to come back, at about 8%.
• Our data showed that about 16 women had not returned for every one who had, five to seven years after freezing.
• We found that the study's authors note the follow-up may be too short for younger patients, who have more years before they would need their eggs.

Live Birth Rates From Frozen Eggs

In the table below, we break down the results of a 2022 NYU Langone study of 543 patients who froze and later thawed their eggs at a single fertility center from 2005 to 2020, with ratios we calculated from its counts.

Our team took three findings from the outcome data:

• We found that age at freezing and the number of eggs thawed both mattered, and the best results came from women who froze before 38 and thawed 20 or more mature eggs.
• Our data showed that 14 women who froze eggs at 41 to 43 had children from them, so freezing later can still lead to a birth.
• We found that the study's 39% overall rate compares with a live birth rate under 20% for IVF with fresh eggs at age 40, the CDC figure the researchers cited.

Egg Freezing Cost by Region

In the table below, we group the 32 published egg freezing prices by Census region and compare each region with the IVF base price that the same clinics publish.

Our researchers drew three conclusions from the regional price data:

• We found that the Northeast and South have the highest median egg freezing prices, $8,825 and $8,750, and the West the lowest, $6,500.
• Our data showed that a clinic's egg freezing price is a median 63.5% of its own IVF price, a gap of $4,500 at the median clinic.
• We found that the lowest published price, $2,995 in California, includes the first year of storage but leaves out monitoring, which that clinic sells as a $995 package.

How Widely Egg Freezing Prices Vary

In the table below, we sort the 32 published prices into bands of $2,000, with the share of prices in each band, the running total, the median price within the band, and how many prices in the band are printed as a floor, such as starting at, or as a range.

Our team took three findings from the price band data:

• We found that half of the published prices fall below $8,000, and 84.4% fall below $10,000.
• Our data showed that 13 of the 16 prices at $8,000 or more are printed as floors or ranges, against 3 of the 16 below $8,000, so higher posted prices are more often a starting point.
• We found that only 14 prices, 43.8%, are a single fixed figure, with a median of $6,500, well below the $9,425 median of prices printed as floors.

What Egg Freezing Prices Include

In the table below, we classify each published price by whether the clinic's page says it includes egg storage, anesthesia, and medications, the three costs most often billed outside the cycle price.

Our researchers drew three conclusions from the inclusion data:

• We found that 10 of the 32 prices include at least a year of egg storage, while six bill storage separately and 14 do not say.
• Our data showed that 20 prices exclude medications or sell them as an add-on and the other 12 do not say, and the two clinics that print a medication estimate put it at $4,000 to $6,000 and $4,000 to $7,000 a cycle.
• We found that storage costs a median $750 a year at the four clinics that print a separate storage fee, so the cost continues for as long as the eggs stay frozen.

What the Egg Freezing Numbers Mean for Women Weighing It

Egg freezing has become a routine part of what US fertility clinics do, and the women choosing it are getting younger. That shift lines up with the outcome data, where the strongest results came from women who froze before 38 and banked many eggs.

Most frozen eggs have not yet been used, and the return rate may rise as younger patients reach the age when they planned to try. The price on a clinic's page usually covers monitoring, retrieval, and freezing, with medications, and often storage and anesthesia, billed on top.

So if you are weighing egg freezing, ask each clinic for a total that includes medications, anesthesia, and several years of storage, and keep in mind that age at freezing and the number of eggs banked are the two factors most tied to a later birth.