8 Billion Lives, Infinite Possibilities: The case for rights and choices

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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.

State of World Population 2019

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Vast numbers of women lack decision-making power over their own bodies, says UNFPA flagship report

10 April 2019

Marta Paula, from Guinea-Bissau, was hospitalized when she gave birth at 13. Doctors were worried she might die. Today, she calls for young people to have access to family planning. © UNFPA/I. Barbosa

Ten key facts and figures about 10-year-old girls

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Ten actions for a more equal world

16 October 2017

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