Our Members
Donor Sibling Registry membership has been growing steadily since our humble beginnings as a Yahoo Group back in September of 2000.
DSR Growth
The DSR is growing!
As of August 24, 2024, the DSR has 5,400 total donors registered. 1,810 sperm donors and 3,590 egg donors. The larger number of registered egg donors is because facilities such as San Diego Fertility Center, Vios, Kindbody, Idaho Reproductive, Illinois Fertility Centers, and Oregon Reproductive Medicine are regularly writing the DSR into their parent/donor agreements so that connecting can happen right from pregnancy/birth. Imagine if just one sperm bank acknowledged the importance of these early connections and offered this as an option.
DSR Stats
Check out these fun statistics about DSR families, matches, and our website. (Note: All numbers are approximate, as not everyone enters all information.)
The average wait is 189 days. Minimum wait is 0 days; maximum is 5008 days.
71.2% of DSR posts yield matches.
80.1% of DSR users who have matched did so instantly. The more users we have, the shorter the average wait time becomes!
19 years old.
10.6 years old.
75% have one child posted, 21% have two children posted, 3.5% have three children posted, 0.5% have four children posted, and around 0.1% have more than four children posted.
84% of DSR posts are families that used sperm donation, 14.5% of families used egg donation, and 1.5% of families used embryo donation.
The DSR website averages more than 15,000 unique visitors and 1.7 million hits per month.
As of April 2019:
10 and under: 4,244
11-19: 6,944
20-29: 3,797
30-39: 1,096
40-49: 350
50-59: 103
60-69: 61
70-79: 9
NOTE: These numbers include 16,611 DSR members but do not include the thousands of DSR members who have not posted or who do not include ages in their postings.
Background on Members
The following infographic provides some demographics on DSR parents and donors.
