The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
It seems to be a very popular news theme to talk about diminishing sperm counts, the idea that 100 years ago or maybe even 35 years ago, the typical male ejaculate contained 100 million sperm per milliliter, and nowadays it's down to 15 to 20 or 50.
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which claimed that sperm count had dropped 50% in 50 years
so in 1940 the average um the average density of human sperm was 113 million per milliliter of semen that's how it's measured how many sperm per milliliter of semen in 1990 this figure has dropped to 66 it went from 113 million per Mill to 66 million per milliliter in the United States and Western Europe
Researchers Al also estimated that the volume of semen produced by men has dropped 20% in that time
total sperm count dropped by 62% globally between 1973 and 2018, including in men from South America and Asia. The rate of decline has also accelerated since 2000, reaching approximately 2.64% per year.
across the last 50 years it's declined so much.