United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Donor Rankings, 2023
Donor rankings include UN-to-UN transfers, which are UNFPA's top source of revenue overall.
The government of the United Kingdom is a longstanding partner of UNFPA and a leading donor, supporting efforts to reach women and girls and those left furthest behind.
In 2022 the UK was the biggest contributor to the UNFPA Supplies Partnership, the world’s largest procurer of donated contraceptives which also provides critical maternal health medicine in many of the world’s lowest income countries – where maternal death rates are high and modern contraceptive use is low. Support for this programme also helps the UK deliver on its commitment to end the preventable deaths of mothers, newborns and children by 2030.
The UK’s vision for gender equality includes enabling girls to live free from violence, and empowering them to have access to universal sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) services. The country’s support for key UNFPA programmes aimed at ending child marriage and eliminating harmful practices, such as female genital mutilation, is crucial to achieving gender equality and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
As UNFPA’s fourth largest provider of humanitarian support in 2022, UK contributions provided life-saving assistance and health care commodities to the most vulnerable women and girls, and enabled the delivery of sexual and reproductive health, and gender-based violence protection services to those most in need.
Support from the United Kingdom goes to programmes throughout Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. The UK is a key ally in promoting SRHR globally, and in supporting UNFPA’s normative work and operations in more than 150 countries.
Key Results 2023
3,090
Maternal deaths averted
1,632,936
Unintended pregnancies prevented
531,639
Unsafe abortions prevented
2,455,259
Women and young people reached with integrated sexual and reproductive health services
581,987
Sexually transmitted infections prevented by provision of female and male condoms
7,802,269
Couple year protections generated
791
Women and girls living with obstetric fistula received treatment
13,368
HIV infections prevented by provision of female and male condoms
900,262
Marginalized girls were reached by life skills programmes
82,097
Women, adolescents and youth benefited from the high-quality services related to harmful practices
14,736
Girls saved from female genital mutilation
Key results are for illustrative purposes only, and reflect what a donor has contributed to through funding to UNFPA in 2022. Key results presented here may not reflect the figures provided by government donors.
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Effective 1 January 2022, UNFPA adopted a new revenue recognition policy; however, for the purposes of this website, information is presented based on previous policy to allow comparability of information across different years.
Effective 1 January 2022, UNFPA adopted a new revenue recognition policy; however, for the purposes of this website, information is presented based on previous policy to allow comparability of information across different years.
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News & Updates
New York 29 April 2024 – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) will join global leaders to call for renewed commitment towards progress on eradicating preventable maternal and newborn deaths at a 29 April event during the 57th Session of the Commission on Population and Development.
At this ministerial event, UNFPA and the Governments of Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sweden, Tanzania and the United Kingdom will celebrate national successes in improving maternal health outcomes; and call on governments to adopt…
