Publication date
Jun 2025
Author
UNFPA
Resources
News
10 June 2025
Speech
17 April 2024
This year’s report makes the case for a world in which each individual is free to choose their reproductive future in a world of 8 billion.
Press release
19 April 2023
Statement
19 April 2023
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
05 May 2022
Publisher
UNFPA
Publication date
Mar 2022
Author
UNFPA
Number of pages
160
State of World Population
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.