A man from a small village in Ghana has more than 100 children. Kofi Asilenu has 12 wives and his family makes up more than a sixth of the population of his village.
Musa Hasahya, a 68-year-old man in Uganda has 12 wives and has fathered 102 kids. Hasahya says he often forgets his children's names.
The man who is thought to have fathered the most children of all time is Moroccan Sultan Ismail Ibn Sharif (1645 to 1727) with a total of more than 1,000, according to Guinness World Records.
The world's most fertile woman has had an incredible 44 children - and now has to raise her massive brood on her own. Mariam Nabatanzi had her record number of babies by the time she was just 36 and all with the same father.
For many who knew him during his lifetime, the name Acentus Akuku 'Danger' is synonymous to polygamy. Call him the grandmaster of seduction if you must because he was Kenya's most prominent polygamist and is reported to have married more than 100 women in his lifetime and fathered over 200 children.
But Maxey also happens to be one of the country's most prolific sperm donors, fathering approximately 400 children after donating his semen twice a week between 1980 and 1994. He's now pushing for stricter sperm bank regulation and mapping his genome online to inform his offspring.
Musa is married to 10 wives and is a father of 98 children and has 568 grandchildren. That is to say that each of his wives has given birth to at least nine children It is believed he started quite early, at 17 instead of being in High School Musa had sired his first child.
A South African woman has broken a Guinness World Record as she gave birth to 10 babies at once, according to a local media report.
One study estimated a woman can have around 15 pregnancies in a lifetime. And depending on how many babies she births for each pregnancy, she'd probably have around 15-30 children. But the "most prolific mother ever," according to Guinness World Records, was Mrs. Feodor Vassilyev in 19th century Russia.
Erramatti Mangamma currently holds the record for being the oldest living mother who gave birth at the age of 73 through in-vitro fertilisation via caesarean section in the city of Hyderabad, India. She delivered twin baby girls, making her also the oldest mother to give birth to twins.
Among men aged 15–49 in 2015–2019, 55.2% had not fathered a biological child, 14.8% had fathered one biological child, 17.4% had fathered two children, 8.2% had fathered three children, and 4.4% had fathered four or more children.
As recently as 31 May 2021, China's government has relaxed restrictions even more, allowing women up to three children. This change was brought about mainly due to the declining birth rate and population growth.
Of course, as women age, the odds of conceiving also gradually lower. The ideal childbearing age is often considered to be in the late 20s and early 30s. Pregnancies later in life could come with some health risks. However, age is just one factor when it comes to giving birth to a child.
DNA from his son has been found to hold a “relevant biological relationship” with 47 people the doctor helped conceive, CNN reported. A documentary suggested he may have fathered about 200 children. The court also stated an “undisputed” number of children have similar appearances to him.
A Russian woman named Valentina Vassilyeva is known as being the woman who has given birth to the most children in one lifetime.
Is infertility a common problem? Yes. In the United States, among married women aged 15 to 49 years with no prior births, about 1 in 5 (19%) are unable to get pregnant after one year of trying (infertility).
There's no maximum age that stops a man from being able to have a baby. You can become a father long into your older years, but there are risks.
A Russian woman named Valentina Vassilyeva and her husband Feodor Vassilyev are alleged to hold the record for the most children a couple has produced. She gave birth to a total of 69 children – sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets – between 1725 and 1765, a total of 27 births.
While a 92-year-old woman delivering a 60-year-old baby may sound like a bizarre plot twist from the movie “Benjamin Button,” it's true. Huang Yijun, 92, of southern China, recently delivered a child which she'd been carrying for well over half a century. The baby wasn't alive, however.
The largest pregnancy ever recorded was for a woman in the UK who gave birth to a 13.47 pound baby at 40 weeks and 6 days. While the chances of having such a large baby are rare, it is still risky to have a baby at any age, especially above 35.
According to research, a woman can have somewhere around 15 to 30 babies in her lifetime.
Cheyenne, who has dark hair and blue-green eyes, isn't the smallest baby ever born. That honor rests with Kwek Yu Xuan, who was born at 7.5 ounces — the weight of an apple — in June 2020 in Singapore. Her mother also suffered from preeclampsia and gave birth by an emergency C-section, according to the BBC.
Zion-a (76), believed to head the world's largest family, with 38 wives and 89 children. Mizoram and his village at Baktawng Tlangnuam has become a major tourist attraction in the state because of the family.
An African man has 15 wives and 107 children and all of them live together in harmony. The 61-year-old lives in a rural village in Western Kenya with all his wives. David Sakayo Kaluhana said that he was inspired by King Solomon, who had 700 wives and 300 concubines.
Known as the Sperminator the inseminator, or perhaps even "America's Dad," Ari Nagel is the biological father to over 100 children across the world.