Overview
- The Health Ministry will mail every 29-year-old information on fertility for men and women, including a reminder that egg freezing is covered by social security from ages 29 to 37.
- Authorities say the plan aims to empower young adults with balanced, scientifically grounded information, not to pressure them into having children.
- Proposals include authorising 30 additional egg-freezing centres on top of roughly 40 already operating and creating a central portal for verified reproductive health information.
- The rollout follows fresh data from Insee showing 645,000 births in 2025 and a total fertility rate of 1.56, with reporting noting deaths outnumbered births last year.
- Critics argue the approach medicalises fertility and sidesteps core obstacles such as housing costs, childcare affordability and wages, while some commentators link demographic anxiety to pensions and immigration and warn of a shift toward harsher pro‑natalist policies.