Much of the Western World struggles with plummeting fertility rates as birth rates fall woefully below the level of replacement. The Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean zone was found to have had almost half the level of infertility as the West, while Subsaharan Africa's infertility rates clocked in at around two-thirds of the Americas. Obesity, endocrine disrupting chemicals, microplastics, and falling testosterone levels may be contributing to the drop in fertility.

A staggering 1 in 6 Americans of childbearing age are infertile according to a shocking World Health Organization report.

The revelation also confirms that much of the Western World struggles with plummeting fertility rates as birth rates fall woefully below the level of replacement.

The WHO report underscored 'sheer proportion' of those affected highlighted the need to make fertility treatments more widely available.