Speech
Opening remarks by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem at the launch of the State of World Population 2024
17 April 2024
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8 Billion Lives, Infinite Possibilities: State of World Population Report 2023
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.
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Statement
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem at the global launch of State of World Population 2023
19 April 2023
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8 Billion Lives, Infinite Possibilities: The case for rights and choices
Published on: 19/04/2023
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.
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News
8 myths about unintended pregnancy debunked
- 05 May 2022
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State of World Population
Seeing the Unseen: The case for action in the neglected crisis of unintended pregnancy
Number of pages: 160
Publication date: 30 Mar 2022
Author: UNFPA
Publisher: UNFPA
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.
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Art installation puts need for bodily autonomy on display
Published on: 12/07/2021
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State of World Population
State of World Population 2014
The Power of 1.8 Billion
Number of pages: 126
Publication date: 17 Nov 2014
Author: UNFPA
Publisher: UNFPA
Young people matter. They matter because an unprecedented 1.8 billion youth are alive today, and because they are the shapers and leaders of our global future. They matter because they have inherent human rights that must be fulfilled. Yet, in a world of adult concerns, young people are often overlooked. This tendency cries out for urgent correction, because it imperils youth as well as economies and societies at large.
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News
507 maternal deaths take place every day in emergencies, fragile settings, flagship report says
- 03 December 2015
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