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Montevideo, December 1st 2025 - 09:53 UTC

Tag: United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

  • Monday, December 1st 2025 - 09:11 UTC

    Paraguay's population reported to be ageing

    In 25 years, Paraguayans “will no longer be so young,” the expert noted

    Paraguay faces an impending demographic transition that will see its adult elderly population double within the next 25 years due to the accelerated aging of its currently large youth segment, according to warnings from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).

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  • Tuesday, April 4th 2017 - 07:32 UTC

    Trump administration begins to cut UN funding: UNFPA first target

    This is the first of the promised cuts to US financial contributions to the UN by the Trump administration.

    United States has withdrawn funding for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), an agency that promotes family planning in more than 150 countries. The state department said the UNFPA “supports or participates in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization”.