Publication date

Jun 2025

Author

UNFPA

Resources

The real fertility crisis: The pursuit of reproductive agency in a changing world - Highlights Brochure

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News

The fertility fallacy: Five things you didn’t know about global fertility rates

calendar_today10 June 2025

In this year’s flagship State of World Population report, UNFPA surveyed some 14,000 people across 14 countries, and found that around one in five said they won’t be able to have the number of children they would like. © Stina Persson
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Speech

Opening remarks by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem at the launch of the State of World Population 2024

calendar_today17 April 2024

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Press release

UNFPA report identifies rising population anxiety, urges radical rethink of how countries address changing demographics

calendar_today19 April 2023

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Statement

Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem at the global launch of State of World Population 2023

calendar_today19 April 2023

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Video

8 Billion Lives, Infinite Possibilities: The case for rights and choices

calendar_today19 April 2023

8 Billion Lives, Infinite Possibilities: The case for rights and choices

8 Billion Lives, Infinite Possibilities: The case for rights and choices

The world population has reached 8 billion. Are there too many people? Too few? These are the wrong questions.

See how humanity becoming 8 billion strong opens us up to infinite possibilities and find out why UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is making a case for reproductive rights and choices. 

News

8 myths about unintended pregnancy debunked

calendar_today05 May 2022

At 14, Dankay Kanu (right, with a mentor from the 2YoungLives NGO, which helps pregnant girls in Sierra Leone continue their education and find employment) got pregnant by an older man who refused to wear a condom then denied paternity. Though she quit school for a time, she has since returned while raising her now-two-year-old son, Ishmael, alone. "To be a mother at this age is not really easy," she said, "but that will enable me to become stronger." @ UNFPA/Michael Duff
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Publisher

UNFPA

Publication date

Mar 2022

Author

UNFPA

Number of pages

160

State of World Population

Seeing the Unseen: The case for action in the neglected crisis of unintended pregnancy

An estimated 121 million pregnancies per year take place in the bodies of women who did not choose pregnancy or motherhood, who were not planning to have a child at that time, with that partner, in those circumstances. Nothing is more fundamental to bodily autonomy than the ability to decide whether or not to become pregnant. Yet for too many, the most life-altering reproductive choice is no choice at all.

Video

Art installation puts need for bodily autonomy on display

calendar_today12 July 2021

Art installation puts need for bodily autonomy on display

Art installation puts need for bodily autonomy on display

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