Thirty years ago, governments around the world agreed that reproductive health and rights are foundation stones of global development – a groundbreaking consensus that paved the way for decades of progress. Since then, the global rate of unintended pregnancies has fallen by nearly 20 per cent globally. The number of women using modern contraceptive methods has doubled. Today at least 162 countries have adopted laws against domestic violence, and maternal deaths have decreased by 34 per cent since 2000. Yet that progress has not been fast enough, nor far-reaching enough.

Read the 2024 State of World Population Report entitled “Interwoven Lives, Threads of Hope: Ending inequalities in sexual and reproductive health and rights” to find out more.