A pack of birth control pills is displayed in this illustration picture taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/Illustration 

A pack of birth control pills is displayed in this illustration picture taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/Illustration 

A pack of birth control pills is displayed in this illustration picture taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/Illustration 

A pack of birth control pills is displayed in this illustration picture taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/Illustration 

A pack of birth control pills is displayed in this illustration picture taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/Illustration 

A pack of birth control pills is displayed in this illustration picture taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/Illustration 

A pack of birth control pills is displayed in this illustration picture taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/Illustration 

A pack of birth control pills is displayed in this illustration picture taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/Illustration 

A pack of birth control pills is displayed in this illustration picture taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/Illustration 

A pack of birth control pills is displayed in this illustration picture taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/Illustration 

A pack of birth control pills is displayed in this illustration picture taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/Illustration 

A pack of birth control pills is displayed in this illustration picture taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/Illustration 

A pack of birth control pills is displayed in this illustration picture taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/Illustration 

A pack of birth control pills is displayed in this illustration picture taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/Illustration 

A pack of birth control pills is displayed in this illustration picture taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/Illustration 

A pack of birth control pills is displayed in this illustration picture taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/Illustration 

A pack of birth control pills is displayed in this illustration picture taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/Illustration 

A pack of birth control pills is displayed in this illustration picture taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/Illustration 

A pack of birth control pills is displayed in this illustration picture taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/Illustration 

A pack of birth control pills is displayed in this illustration picture taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/Illustration 

A pack of birth control pills is displayed in this illustration picture taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/Illustration 

A pack of birth control pills is displayed in this illustration picture taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/Illustration 

A pack of birth control pills is displayed in this illustration picture taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/Illustration 

A pack of birth control pills is displayed in this illustration picture taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah Beier/Illustration 

People walk in front of Pokrovsk maternity hospital, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, July 6, 2022. The centre, roughly 40 km (25 miles) from the closest front line, gives a glimpse of the suffering the war is inflicting on pregnant women - their anxiety over where they can give birth, fears of whether the hospital will come under attack, and what doctors have observed to be an increased rate of early labour. REUTERS/Marko Djurica SEARCH "DJURICA UKRAINE MATERNITY" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES 

Nurses sit inside Pokrovsk maternity hospital, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, July 6, 2022. The centre, roughly 40 km (25 miles) from the closest front line, gives a glimpse of the suffering the war is inflicting on pregnant women - their anxiety over where they can give birth, fears of whether the hospital will come under attack, and what doctors have observed to be an increased rate of early labour. REUTERS/Marko Djurica SEARCH "DJURICA UKRAINE MATERNITY" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES 

A nurse walks inside Pokrovsk maternity hospital, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, July 6, 2022. Rooms used for births at the Perinatal Centre in the city of Pokrovsk follow the two-wall rule, which says the safest parts of a building are separated from the outside by at least two walls. REUTERS/Marko Djurica SEARCH "DJURICA UKRAINE MATERNITY" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES 

Irina Budakova, 24, holds her as-yet unnamed two-day-old boy inside Pokrovsk maternity hospital, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, July 6, 2022. Rooms used for births at the Perinatal Centre in the city of Pokrovsk follow the two-wall rule, which says the safest parts of a building are separated from the outside by at least two walls. REUTERS/Marko Djurica SEARCH "DJURICA UKRAINE MATERNITY" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES 

A nurse walks in a kitchen at Pokrovsk maternity hospital, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, July 6, 2022. Rooms used for births at the Perinatal Centre in the city of Pokrovsk follow the two-wall rule, which says the safest parts of a building are separated from the outside by at least two walls. REUTERS/Marko Djurica SEARCH "DJURICA UKRAINE MATERNITY" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES 

Marina Tupata, 26, stands next to her six-day-old baby Sofia, inside Pokrovsk maternity hospital, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, June 29, 2022. Rooms used for births at the Perinatal Centre in the city of Pokrovsk follow the two-wall rule, which says the safest parts of a building are separated from the outside by at least two walls. REUTERS/Marko Djurica SEARCH "DJURICA UKRAINE MATERNITY" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES 

Pregnant Viktoriya Sokolovska, 16, sits inside Pokrovsk maternity hospital, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, June 28, 2022. She has since given birth to a healthy daughter, Emilia. REUTERS/Marko Djurica SEARCH "DJURICA UKRAINE MATERNITY" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Doctor Ivan Tsyganok, 56, stands inside Pokrovsk maternity hospital, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, June 28, 2022. Tsyganok fears the stress of living under Russian attack has led to a spike in premature births, a fear borne out in initial data from the centre, shared with Reuters, and observed elsewhere in conflict zones. REUTERS/Marko Djurica SEARCH "DJURICA UKRAINE MATERNITY" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES 

Doctor Ivan Tsyganok, 56, is pictured inside Pokrovsk maternity hospital, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, June 28, 2022. Tsyganok fears the stress of living under Russian attack has led to a spike in premature births, a fear borne out in initial data from the centre, shared with Reuters, and observed elsewhere in conflict zones. REUTERS/Marko Djurica SEARCH "DJURICA UKRAINE MATERNITY" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES 

An abortion rights protester wears earrings made of birth control packets as protesters gather outside of the federal courthouse in downtown Houston, Texas, after the United States Supreme Court ruled in the Dobbs v Women's Health Organization abortion case, overturning the landmark Roe v Wade abortion decision, June 24, 2022. REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Birth-control pills are seen on display on a table at a gynaecologist clinic in Paris, France, January 5, 2022. REUTERS/Noemie Olive 

Birth-control pills are seen on display on a table at a gynaecologist clinic in Paris, France, January 5, 2022. REUTERS/Noemie Olive 

Raul Maradona, brother of late soccer legend Diego Armando Maradona controls the ball during a match paying homage to Diego Maradona at the Diego Maradona stadium, marking Maradona's 61st birth date, in Buenos Aires, Argentina October 30, 2021. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian 

At 10 years old, Lyoo Chan-hee wishes he wasn't one of the last three schoolkids left playing on the beaches of Nokdo island. "It would be great if I had more friends here because I could have more options to play," said Chan-hee. Instead, he often plays with Kim Si-young - aged 66, and one of the last 100 or so residents of a once-vibrant fishing village emblematic of the demographic crisis unfolding in South Korea. Away from the beach and Chan-hee, Kim leafed through a photo album showing a sun-splashed school sports day - images of hundreds of people toasting children with rice wine that brought tears to his eyes. The prints are 40 years old and fading, just like the prospects for Nokdo, about a 75-minute ferry ride off South Korea's west coast. After decades of national urbanisation, and a long-gone birth control drive, Nokdo's school is long shut. Nokdo's decline encapsulates the demographic slump that was the population of Asia's fourth-largest economy drop for the first time last year. It has become the world's fastest-ageing society with the lowest birth rate anywhere in 2020, according to the World Bank. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji SEARCH "NOKDO AGEING " FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY Matching Text: SOUTHKOREA-AGEING/ 

At 10 years old, Lyoo Chan-hee wishes he wasn't one of the last three schoolkids left playing on the beaches of Nokdo island. "It would be great if I have more friends here because I can have more options to play," said Chan-hee. Instead, he often plays with Kim Si-young - aged 66, and one of the last 100 or so residents of a once-vibrant fishing village emblematic of the demographic crisis unfolding in South Korea. Away from the beach and Chan-hee, Kim leafed through a photo album showing a sun-splashed school sports day - images of hundreds of people toasting children with rice wine that brought tears to his eyes. The prints are 40 years old and fading, just like the prospects for Nokdo, about a 75-minute ferry ride off South Korea's west coast. After decades of national urbanisation, and a long-gone birth control drive, Nokdo's school is long shut. Nokdo's decline encapsulates the demographic slump that was the population of Asia's fourth-largest economy drop for the first time last year. It has become the world's fastest-ageing society with the lowest birth rate anywhere in 2020, according to the World Bank. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji SEARCH "NOKDO AGEING " FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY Matching Text: SOUTHKOREA-AGEING/ 

Participants rest as they attend a carnival to celebrate the 220th birth anniversary of Alexander Pushkin in the rebel-controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine June 6, 2019. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Participants attend a carnival to celebrate the 220th birth anniversary of Alexander Pushkin in the rebel-controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine June 6, 2019. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko 

Participants attend a carnival to celebrate the 220th birth anniversary of Alexander Pushkin in the rebel-controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine June 6, 2019. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko 

Participants attend a carnival to celebrate the 220th birth anniversary of Alexander Pushkin in the rebel-controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine June 6, 2019. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko 

Participants rest as they attend a carnival to celebrate the 220th birth anniversary of Alexander Pushkin in the rebel-controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine June 6, 2019. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko 

Rhiannon Laoch, 32, shares a personal story at a bilingual healthcare town hall sponsored by local organizations that work in Latino voter outreach, disability advocacy and community health at the Ability360 Center in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. July 5, 2017. Laoch lives with endometriosis and takes birth control as medication for the rare condition. Picture taken July 5, 2017. REUTERS/Caitlin O'Hara 

After seizing large parts of Iraq and neighbouring Syria in 2014, Islamic State imposed its strict interpretation of Islamic law and began to establish the basic frameworks of statehood such as taxes and regulation. But that project is collapsing in the face of a military campaign in Iraq to crush the militants, with unexpected consequences for ordinary people escaping their grip. Births in Islamic State-controlled areas were registered with authorities that are not considered valid outside that shrinking territory - or not registered at all. That is adding hundreds and perhaps thousands of children under the age of 2-1/2 to the growing numbers of children across the Middle East who are stateless Ð lacking legal recognition as a citizen of any country. Stateless children risk missing out on basic rights such as education and healthcare, are likely to face difficulties in adulthood getting a job, and are exposed to abuse and trafficking, according to the United Nations. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra SEARCH "CALIPHATE CHILDREN" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. Matching text: MIDEAST-CRISIS/MOSUL-CHILDREN 

Women carry newborn babies while reacting after they were evacuated by the Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters from an Islamic State-controlled neighbourhood of Manbij, in Aleppo Governorate, Syria, August 12, 2016. The SDF has said Islamic State was using civilians as human shields. REUTERS/Rodi Said TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Venezuela's food shortages, inflation and crumbling medical sector have become such a source of anguish that a growing number of young women are reluctantly opting for sterilizations rather than face the hardship of pregnancy and child-rearing. Traditional contraceptives like condoms or birth control pills have virtually vanished from store shelves, pushing women towards the hard-to-reverse surgery. While no recent national statistics on sterilizations are available, doctors and health workers say demand for the procedure is growing. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins SEARCH "STERILIZATION CHILD" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY Matching text VENEZUELA-STERILIZATIONS/ 

Women wait for sterilization surgery at a hospital in Caracas, Venezuela July 27, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins SEARCH "STERILIZATION CHILD" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Women wait for sterilization surgery a hospital in Caracas, Venezuela July 27, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins SEARCH "STERILIZATION CHILD" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY 

Luana Vieira, 4 months old, and born with microcephaly, sleeps in a beach chair as her mother Rosana Viera Alves (R rear) stands in the sea with her other daughter Laiane Sophia in Olinda, Brazil, February 4, 2016. The suspected link between the Zika virus and a birth defect known as microcephaly appears "stronger and stronger" as researchers study whether there is a causal connection, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday. Picture taken February 4, 2016. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino 

Vitoria Evillen (R) blows soap bubbles near her 4-month-old sister Luana Vieira, who was born with microcephaly, at their home in Olinda, Brazil, February 3, 2016. The suspected link between the Zika virus and a birth defect known as microcephaly appears "stronger and stronger" as researchers study whether there is a causal connection, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday. Picture taken February 3, 2016. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino 

Rosana Vieira Alves holds her 4-month-old daughter Luana Vieira, who was born with microcephaly, as her daughter Laiane Sophia looks on at their home in Olinda, Brazil, February 2, 2016. The suspected link between the Zika virus and a birth defect known as microcephaly appears "stronger and stronger" as researchers study whether there is a causal connection, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday. Picture taken February 2, 2016. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino 

Rosana Vieira Alves (R rear) bathes her 4-month-old daughter Luana Vieira, who was born with microcephaly, as her daughters Vitoria Evillen (L) and Laiane Sophia play outside their home in Olinda, Brazil, February 3, 2016. The suspected link between the Zika virus and a birth defect known as microcephaly appears "stronger and stronger" as researchers study whether there is a causal connection, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday. Picture taken February 3, 2016. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino 

Laiane Sophie cries as her mother Rosana Vieira Alves holds her other daughter, 4-month-old Luana Vieira (not pictured) who was born with microcephaly, at their home in Olinda, Brazil, February 3, 2016. The suspected link between the Zika virus and a birth defect known as microcephaly appears "stronger and stronger" as researchers study whether there is a causal connection, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday. Picture taken February 3, 2016. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino 

Rosana Vieira Alves carries her 4-month-old daughter Luana Vieira, who was born with microcephaly, while taking her daughters Laiane Sophia (L) and Vitoria Evillen to their school in Olinda, Brazil, February 4, 2016. The suspected link between the Zika virus and a birth defect known as microcephaly appears "stronger and stronger" as researchers study whether there is a causal connection, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday. Picture taken February 4, 2016. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino 

Rosana Vieira Alves fixes the hair of her 4-month-old daughter Luana Vieira, who was born with microcephaly, at their house in Olinda, Brazil, February 3, 2016. The suspected link between the Zika virus and a birth defect known as microcephaly appears "stronger and stronger" as researchers study whether there is a causal connection, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday. Picture taken February 3, 2016. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY