Resources
The real fertility crisis: The pursuit of reproductive agency in a changing world - Highlights Brochure
Resource date: Jun 2025
Author: UNFPA
Resources
Resource date: Jun 2025
Author: UNFPA
News
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.
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
State of World Population
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.