United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Donor Rankings, 2023

11th Core Contributions
3rd Non Core Contributions
3rd Overall Contributions

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 women and girls and those left furthest behind.

In 2023, the UK remained the biggest contributor to the UNFPA Supplies Partnership, the world’s largest procurer of donated contraceptives. The programme 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 one of UNFPA’s top five humanitarian donors in 2023, UK contributions provided life-saving aid, sexual and reproductive health services, and gender-based violence protection services to the most vulnerable women and girls, in places such as Afghanistan, Somalia and Ukraine.

Support from the United Kingdom goes to programmes throughout Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. The UK is a key ally in promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights globally, and in supporting UNFPA’s normative work and operations in more than 150 countries.

Key Results 2023

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3,090

Maternal deaths averted

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1,632,936

Unintended pregnancies prevented

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531,639

Unsafe abortions prevented

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2,455,259

Women and young people reached with integrated sexual and reproductive health services

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581,987

Sexually transmitted infections prevented by provision of female and male condoms

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7,802,269

Couple year protections generated

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791

Women and girls living with obstetric fistula received treatment

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13,368

HIV infections prevented by provision of female and male condoms

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900,262

Marginalized girls were reached by life skills programmes

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82,097

Women, adolescents and youth benefited from the high-quality services related to harmful practices

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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.

UNFPA and the United Kingdom Key results brochure

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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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