As UNFPA's 2022 State of World Population report reveals, nearly half of all pregnancies worldwide are unintended, and over 60 percent of these unintended pregnancies may end in abortion. A staggering 45 percent of all abortions around the world are unsafe, making this a leading cause of mater...
The number of unintended pregnancies represents a global failure to uphold a basic human right for women and girls. And that failure is expected to grow, warns the "State of World Population 2022" report, which was released on Wednesday. While recent data show that the unintended pregnancy rate...
The world's population could grow to around 8.5 billion in 2030 and 9.7 billion in 2050 and peak at around 10.4 billion during the 2080s, and countries in sub-Saharan Africa are expected to contribute more than half of the increase through 2050, said the report. More than half of the pr...
The report — released on World Population Day — says the global population is then expected to decline to around 10.2 billion by the end of the century. John Wilmoth, head of the U.N. Population Division which...
Burundi also has been weakened by widespread corruption, the report said, noting that the average length of schooling is just over three years and less than 5% of the population has access to electricity. The report calls on Burundi’s government to resume full cooperation with the World He...
UN-Habitat has just released its annual World Cities Report during the eleventh session of the World Urban Forum, which took place in Katowice, Poland from June 27 until June 30, 2022. Titled “Envisaging the Future of Cities”, the 2022 release highlights insights on the future of the urba...
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It's projected that debt service in the least developed nations will reach an annual sum of 40 billion dollars from 2023 to 2025, marking an increase of over 50 percent from the 26 billion dollars recorded in 2022. Additionally, the report attributes more than half of this surge in debt to...