UNFPA's 2025 State of World Population report, titled 'The Real Fertility Crisis', reveals that most people already want to have children, and many want more children than they are able to have.
These findings reveal that the real crisis the world is facing is not one of underpopulation: It is a crisis of reproductive agency. In every country studied, regardless of its total fertility rate, the most consequential reproductive decision a human being can make - whether, when and with whom to have a child - is being undermined, and in some cases outright denied.
This brochure brings crucial highlights from the report shining a much-needed light on the individual realities of vast numbers of people who are unable to create the families they want.
