how many eggs do females have?
<answer> At birth, each woman has about 1,000,000 eggs. <context> At birth, each woman has about 1,000,000 eggs available for fertilization. Only a small minority of these eggs will have the proper quality for fertilization. Egg Quantity as You Age As you age, the number of eggs in your ovaries begins to decrease. woman of 40 typically has lower egg quality than a woman of 20. This is not to say that your eggs are of poor quality just because you're aging. Many younger women have poor quality eggs while some older women have very high quality eggs.