Thirty years after the international community agreed on an ambitious programme to put people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights at the heart of global development, massive inequalities persist and millions of people, generally among the most disadvantaged population groups, remain excluded from the significant progress recorded overall across all world regions.    

This is the conclusion of UNFPA’s flagship State of World Population report, which this year analyzes how far countries globally, and in the wider European region, have come in implementing the groundbreaking Programme of Action adopted by the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo in 1994.