High fertility in sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia is impeding economic development and perpetuating poverty, the UN Population Fund has warned.
With an estimated 215m women seeking but unable to gain access to family planning each year, it has urged redoubled health and education programmes.
The call comes in the agency’s annual state of world population report, issued on the eve of the birth of the seven billionth human, which is estimated to take place at the end of this month.
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