UNFPA Asia and the Pacific | State of the World Population Report 2025: The Real Fertility Crisis

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Across the world, and across Asia and the Pacific, people are not having the number of children they desire (Photo: UNFPA Pacific)

24 November 2025

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UNFPA report launched in Canberra reveals the real fertility crisis: a lack of reproductive agency

Declining fertility rates in Asia and the Pacific – including in Australia – are sparking global alarm.

A portrait of a young girl from Bangladesh

11 July 2025

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Opinion-Editorial: The Real Fertility Crisis? Young People are Denied Choice

On World Population Day, UNFPA Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, Mr. Pio Smith highlights that every young person should have the power to decide their future where parenthood is a choice.

Cover of the State of World Population report, an artwork of watercolor painting style of two hands almost touching

02 July 2025

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Highlights | State of World Population Report 2025

This brochure brings crucial highlights from the UNFPA State of World Population Report 2025, titled 'The Real Fertility Crisis', which shines a much-needed light on the individual…

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UNFPA report: Fertility crisis is rooted in denied choices, not birth rates

25 June 2025

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UNFPA report: Fertility crisis is rooted in denied choices, not birth rates

The real fertility crisis gripping countries across Asia and the Pacific is not about birth rates being too high or too low – it is about people being denied the power to make choices about their own…

Mr. Pio Smith, UNFPA Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific

25 June 2025

News

Statement by the Regional Director at the launch of the State of World Population Report 2025 in Asia and the Pacific

Thank you for joining us today for the regional launch of UNFPA’s 2025 State of World Population Report here at the Third Ministerial Conference on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) in…