Conclusion
The findings from this study may provide crucial data for use in future research and clinical practice. Our study shows that the community-based global prevalence of infertility was 12.87% and that infertility was generally more common in persons who were from Africa or Oceania and in women aged 35 and above. An upward trend of the prevalence of infertility during the past 7 decades was observed and may persist in the future. More high-quality epidemiologic investigations on community-based infertility appear to be needed, especially for different subgroups of infertility and within the Region of the Americas, and the Region of Asia.