• Only 20% of married women in sub-Saharan Africa use a modern form of family planning, the lowest rate in the world.• Excluding China, 47% of women in Asia use a modern form of contraception.• Latin America modern contraception, at 67%, rivals that of developed countries.• Europe’s population is projected to decrease from 740 million to 732 million by 2050 – due to low birth rates4 • About one in every 33 babies is born with a birth defect5 (US)• Every 4 ½ minutes, a baby is born with a birth defect in the United States. That means nearly 120,000 babies are affected by birth defects each year6 • 4 million babies are born in the United States each year • The U.S. fertility rate has been declining since 2007 • The most popular day for babies to make their entrance in 2013 was Tuesday • Sunday was the slowest day, with 33.3 fewer births than average • In 2013 more new-borns arrived in August than in any other month • Number of twin births: 135,336 • Number of triplet births: 4,233 • Number of quadruplet births: 246 • Number of quintuplets and other higher order births: 478 Five main types of cancer affect a woman’s reproductive organs: • cervical • ovarian • uterine • vaginal • vulvar As a group, they are referred to as gynaecologic cancers.• Overall, gynaecological cancers accounted for 9% of all reported cancers in females in 2008.• The most commonly diagnosed was uterine cancer with 2,016 cases in 2008, followed by ovarian cancer (1,272), cervical cancer (778), vulval cancer (282), cancer of other female organ and placenta (116) and vaginal cancer (70).• Men still dominate the field - about 64% of the doctors practicing obstetrics and gynaecology are male • Women have filled 70.3% of the nation’s ob-gyn residencies – soon it’s likely that a majority of practising ob-gyn doctors will be female It is estimated that 5 million women and girls of childbearing age in the U.S. have endometriosis.• Chlamydia is the most frequently reported infectious disease in the U.S. • However, 75% of women have no symptoms and may not seek health care. • Left untreated, 40% of women will develop PID and many of these women will become infertile.• In the U.S., more than 1 million women experience an episode of acute PID each year, with teenagers having the highest rate of infection.1. http://www.ecology.com/birth-death-rates/2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_ rate 3. http://www.prb.org/publications/Datasheets/2012/world-population-data-sheet/fact-sheet-world-population.aspx 4. http://www.prb.org/publications/Datasheets/2012/world-population-data-sheet/fact-sheet-world-population.aspx 5. https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/birthdefects/index.html 6. https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/birthdefects/index.html 7. http://www.geoba.se/population.php?pc=world&type=10&year=2016&st=rank&asde=&page=1 8. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/multiple.htm 9. https://anzgog.org.au/content.aspx?page=outreachcancer&menu=news • Nigeria seven births per women • Singapore 0.82 births per women 131.4 million births per year 360,000 births per day 15,000 births each hour 250 births each minute1 America • In 2012 the average global birth rate was 19.15 births per 1,000 total population • Compared to 20.09 per 1,000 total population in 20072 • World population grew to 7.06 billion in mid-2012 • Developing countries accounted for 97% of this growth • The annual number of births barely exceeds deaths • By 2025, it is likely that deaths will exceed births in the developed countries, the first time this will have happened in history.3 Births per woman – averages TFR7 9