UNFPA’s mission is achieving three zeros: zero preventable maternal death, zero unmet need for family planning and zero gender-based violence and harmful practices by 2030.
The world is ageing rapidly. Between 1974 and 2024, the worldwide share of people aged 65 almost doubled – increasing...
The population and housing census is among the most complex and massive peacetime exercises a nation can undertake. It r...
Millions of people are born, married and die without leaving a trace of their existence in official legal records. The W...
From changing temperatures to strengthening storms and rising sea levels, the effects of climate change are impacting al...
Sustainable development cannot be achieved without assuring that all women and men, and girls and boys, enjoy the dignit...
The world is undergoing the largest wave of urban growth in history. More than half of the world’s population n...
It took hundreds of thousands of years for the world population to grow to one billion – then in just another 200 years ...
Leave no one behind. This goal is central to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – which repre...
At UNFPA, we are committed to advancing the sexual and reproductive health and rights of persons with disabilities, part...
Gender equality cannot be achieved without the involvement of men and boys. Change is slowly taking place, and men are i...
In the matter of LGBTQIA+ rights, we started behind – it wasn’t until 1990 that homosexuality was declassified as a ment...
Gender equality is a human right. Women are entitled to live with dignity and freedom from fear. Gender equality is a...
Sexual health is a precursor to reproductive health. Unfortunately, hundreds of millions of people are infected with cur...
It is every person’s human right to have access to inclusive and comprehensive sexuality education, to freely choose the...
Each day, some 800 million people between the ages of 15 - 49 are menstruating. Yet for so many, a natural biological pr...
Today's generation of young people is absolutely massive: Some 1.8 billion people are between ages 10 and 24. Most of th...
When disaster strikes, UNFPA is on the ground delivering sexual and reproductive health care and life-saving services and protection to women and girls at their most vulnerable.
