State of World Population

State of World Population 2016

10: How our future depends on a girl at this decisive age

Number of pages: 116

Publication date: 20 Oct 2016

Author: UNFPA

Press Release

UNFPA State of World Population 2016

20 October 2016

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For busy garment workers in Lesotho, health care comes on wheels

’Mantina Mphohle receiving health services inside a new mobile clinic, near the factory where she works. © UNFPA Lesotho

18 October 2016

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The power of 10: Ten astonishing facts about 10-year-old girls

Temawelase is a sixth-grader in rural Swaziland. Whether the world is able to achieve its development goals depends, in large part, on her fate and the fate of girls like her. ©UNFPA/Barcroft Media/Mark Lewis

20 October 2016

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Stunning plunge in maternal deaths recorded in Maldives

Joint UN estimates indicate the Maldives has seen a 90 per cent decline in maternal mortality since 1990. © UNFPA/Shahina Ali

12 October 2016

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Fifty years after a terrible childbirth injury, Kenyan woman gets a new lease on life

Jumwa Kabibu Kai, 77, with Kilifi County Governor Amason Kingi, at an event raising awareness about fistula. © UNFPA Kenya/Douglas Waudo

10 October 2016

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After harrowing escape, South Sudan woman welcomes healthy twins

Nyador Dagey with her newborn twins in a UNFPA-supported clinic in Bentiu. © UNFPA South Sudan/Michael Gatluak Tuok

04 October 2016

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Giving birth upright, with maté – Peru clinics open arms to indigenous women

This woman's second childbirth experience was totally different from her first, she says, because she was able to deliver in the traditional vertical position. © Panorama/Carlos Gomez

29 September 2016

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Companies pledge to help reduce childbirth deaths in crisis settings

Residents flee brutal violence in the Rutshuru territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 2012. Women give birth, even in wartime and disasters. © UN Photo/Sylvain Liechti

21 September 2016

Saving lives through mentoring

Published on: 15/09/2016

In Burkina Faso, a mentoring programme for midwives is saving the lives of women and newborns.

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