Updates

UNFPA and UNICEF renew multi-country initiative to protect millions of girls from child marriage

10 Mar 2020

The Global Programme is helping a girls' club stamp out child marriage in Ethiopia. © UNFPA Ethiopia/Abraham Gelaw

News

Better suicide prevention and mental health care needed among Myanmar’s most vulnerable

04 March 2020

Young people in Myanmar face a variety of risk factors for depression and other mental health disorders, including exposure to conflict and humanitarian crisis. © UNFPA Myanmar

News

“We must resolutely resist any attempts to go back”: Listening to the icons and activists of women’s rights

05 March 2020

"I want my daughters to be respected as human beings," says Fawzia Koofi, a trailblazer in Afghanistan. © Johannes Eisele/AFP/GettyImages© Johannes Eisele/AFP/GettyImages

UNFPA Population Data Thematic Fund

Read more about UNFPA Population Data Thematic Fund

UNFPA’s Population Data Thematic Fund (Pop Data Fund) addresses long standing shortfalls in population data and related human capacity. The Pop Data Fund expands the scope and quality of modern census and registry data, increases the use of geo-referenced population data to accelerate progress towards the SDGs, and advances the objectives of UNFPA’s mandate.

World population trends

Read more about World population trends

It took hundreds of thousands of years for the world population to grow to 1 billion – then in just another 200 years or so, it grew sevenfold...

Census

Read more about Census

A population and housing census is among the most complex and massive peacetime exercises a nation can undertake. It requires careful planning, resourcing and implementation...