Tag: World Population Day

World Population Day in Six Eye-Popping Charts | UNFPA Today is World Population Day!  The world’s population counts 7,3 billion people today. This year’s theme is the importance of investing in teenage girls. View the UN Population Fund’s six eye-popping charts on the topic clicking the link. The first one shows that there are more young people today than ever before in history: Click to check out the rest.

pubhealth: Today is World Population Day Focus is on Adolescent Pregnancy Join the discussion on Twitter and Facebook  #worldpopday About 16 million girls under age 18 give birth each year. Another 3.2 million undergo unsafe abortions. The vast majority – 90 per cent — of the pregnant adolescents in the developing world are married. But for far too many of these girls, pregnancy has little to do with informed choice. Often it is a consequence of discrimination, rights violations (including child marriage), inadequate education or sexual coercion. Adolescent pregnancy is a health issue: the youngest mothers face a heightened risk…