World fertility report 2015 : highlights

While population trends are not explicitly mentioned in the recently adopted 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, several of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are directly or indirectly related to future demographic trends. As part of the mandate of the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat to provide regular updates on fertility estimates and projections and in recognition of the importance of fertility as a fundamental factor affecting sustainable development, the present report provides highlights of fertility estimates and projections at the national, regional and global levels for a period covering 80 years from 1970 to 2050. It also takes a closer look at the status of fertility transition in various parts of the world, examines trajectories of adolescent fertility and discusses the impact of the four population components on future population growth.

33 p. : ill., graphs, tables

Includes bibliographical references (p. 27).
Document symbol repeated in World Fertility Report.