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State of World Population 1999: Six Billion - A Time for Choices

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The 1999 annual report by the UN Population Fund examines the effects of population growth and the need for decisions to avoid future hardship as well as action aimed at increasing education, promoting gender equality and ensuring the universal exercise of the right to health, including reproductive health.

For this purpose, it includes the following chapters:

- Population change and people's choices
- Reproductive health and reproductive rights
- Partnership and empowerment
- Finding the resources