Statement

Statement at the launch of The State of World Population 2022

30 March 2022

News

8 myths about unintended pregnancy debunked

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

05 May 2022

Press Release

Nearly half of all pregnancies are unintended—a global crisis, says new UNFPA report

30 March 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.

Publication

Technology-facilitated Gender-based Violence: Making All Spaces Safe

Number of pages: 74

Publication date: 01 Dec 2021

Author: UNFPA

Publisher: UNFPA

Annual Report

2020 Orange Book of Results

Number of pages: 264

Publication date: 01 Jul 2021

Author: UNFPA

Publisher: UNFPA

Resources

Household Structures and Older Persons

Resource date: Mar 2020

Author: Sainan Zhang, Sandile Simelane, Tapiwa Jhamba, Rachel Snow

Publisher: UNFPA

Art installation puts need for bodily autonomy on display

Published on: 12/07/2021

UNFPA in Action 2020

Published on: 15/06/2021

In 2020, UNFPA witnessed the greatest humanitarian crisis since the organization’s creation 52 years ago: the COVID-19 pandemic. This public health catastrophe brought with it socioeconomic, political and human rights crises, doubling the global need for humanitarian assistance from the previous year. Women and girls bore many of the worst impacts. Watch this video to see how UNFPA rose to the challenge. Learn more.