Almost one in five adults of procrear, 18% of the population under 50, believes that it will not have the number of children you want, a proportion that rises to 43% among the elderly of that age when asked about the number of children they have had in front of those who expected.
They are data that emerge from the report on the state of the world population of 2025, ‘The true crisis of fertility: achieve reproductive freedom in a world of changes’, prepared by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and presented this Tuesday in Madrid.
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“Unpublished Situation” of Humanity
The person in charge of exposing the results of the report was the representative of UNFPA in Colombia, Luis Mora, who explained that humanity is facing an “unpublished situation” in its history, because a maximum population has been reached but a “global context of low fertility begins to appreciate.”
This is the first time that a UN report is dedicated to the topic of low fertility worldwide. However, the population fund wants to get away from the “catastrophic look” and seeks to focus on the majority of the population cannot have the children they would like.
The survey, in which more than 14 thousand adult men and women from 14 countries participating in conjunction add more than 37% of the world’s population, reflects that “a very high percentage” of men and women worldwide “are not in a position to fulfill their aspirations in fertility.”
Economic restrictions, main difficulty
Among adults of procrear age, the most common response is that they want to have two children. However, 11% believe it will have a lower amount of the desired one, while 7% think it will exceed their ideal goal.
When asking the population whose reproductive life is terminated, those over 50, only 38% say they had the number of children they wanted; 31% had less than those waiting and 12% exceeded their ideal figure.
Of the 10,000 people surveyed who wanted to have children, when asked why they have had or believe they will have fewer children than they would like, they point to economic restrictions (39%), but also to unemployment or work precariousness (21%) and the limitations related to housing (19%).
In addition to economic reasons, 24% talk about health problems and around the fifth (19%) refers to fears for the future (climate change, wars, pandemics, etc.).
On the other hand, 14% explain that they lack a couple or an adequate couple to bring children to the world. “Especially in the case of women, who feel that their male partners are not always willing to share the raising of children equally,” Mora said.
Lack of reproductive autonomy
The UNFPA report includes that, breach of fertility aspirations, the problem of high -intentional pregnancies rates is added.
One in three people (32%) said they had an unintentional pregnancy. In addition, almost 13% of respondents from the 14 countries mentioned having gone both through a non -intentional pregnancy and for a time when they could not specify their desire to have children.
In addition, those collected in the report suggest that 70% of women have suffered limitations to the capacity in the reproductive field (59% in the case of men), and 33% denounced having been unable to say that not their partner when maintaining sexual relations (23% in men).
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Given this situation, the representative of UNFPA in Colombia asks for public policies aimed at greater job stability and access to housing, “especially for young people”, but also universal sexual and reproductive health policies.
It also see necessary to support families with “care and co -responsibility” policies and adopt immigration policies with a positive perspective towards migrants in the population.
With EFE information
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