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These are the Latest Trends in World Population

Today World Population Day. This chart is from the the United Nations Population Fund, which shows the latest data on population growth around the world. The chart displays three different estimates of global population by the end of the century....

Chart of the Day: The Number of Unintended Pregnancies Drop Worldwide

Today’s chart comes from the Guttmacher Institute, with data drawn from a just-published Lancet study that shows the rates of unintended pregnancies around the world are on the decline. The study compared rates of unintended pregnancies from the period of...

Female Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh Are Suffering the Consequences of Trump’s Decision to Defund a Key UN Agency

As thousands of Rohingya continue to flee Myanmar in the fastest growing humanitarian crisis in the world, the focus of aid groups is shifting to the conditions facing refugees in the crowded camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The struggle to...

Thanks to the USA, 7,400 Babies Were Born in this Refugee Camp Without a Single Death. Now, the White House is Pulling Its Support

Ed note. As of May 2017, more and 7,400 babies have been delivered in the maternity ward of a UN-run clinic in Zataari refugee camp without a single maternal death. On March 31, 2017, the U.S. announced it would stop...

Trump Just Made Giving Birth Much Riskier for Millions of Moms Around the World…For Literally No Good Reason

The Trump administration has decided to defund the United Nations Population Fund, a UN agency that serves some of the most vulnerable mothers and mothers-to-be around the world. UNFPA, as it is known, provides maternal health services around the world,...

China Reverses One Child Policy. Does This Mean the USA will Fully Fund UNFPA?

China decides to end its one child policy. What this might mean for the UN.

My Wife Gave Birth to Our Son in the Passenger Seat of our Old Car, Which Taught Me a lot About Global Health

This is a wild story. It ends well. Two weeks ago my wife went into labor with our second child. We did not quite make it to the hospital. Or, rather, we did make it to the hospital. Just not...

Chart of the Day: “Where There’s Motherhood in Childhood”

A new report from UNFPA shows high rates of adolescent pregnancy.

By Choice, Not By Chance: Increasing Access to Family Planning

Bringing modern family planning services to women and men who want them is one of the great global challenges of our era.

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