In a prior article, BioInformant shared the following information about domestic rates of public and private cord blood storage within the United States. This article identified that U.S. parents now privately store cord blood for approximately 2.6% of births (102,000 / 3,945,000 births = 2.6%).
If publicly donated cord blood is included too, then approximately 3% of U.S. parents now store cord blood at birth, because there are about 5 cord blood units privately stored for every cord blood unit that is publicly donated.
In this article, let’s consider cord blood banking data on a global basis. [Read more…]