Number of twins being born globally at ‘all-time high’, medical study shows

Almost one in 40 children are being born twins — more than ever before — mainly due to the rapid rise of medically assisted reproduction, according to new medical research.

More than 1.6 million twins are now being born every year, researchers said in a paper published by scientific journal Human Reproduction.

“The relative and absolute numbers of twins in the world are higher than they have ever been since the mid-twentieth century,” Christiaan Monden, one of the study’s authors at Oxford University,…