World Population Conferences

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A World Population Conference was held in Geneva from 29 August to 3 September 1927, organized by the League of Nations and Margaret Sanger.

Since the establishment of the United Nations (UN) in 1945, three official international conferences on population have been held (in 1974, 1984 and 1994), and two other conferences on population have been convened (in 1954 and 1965):[1][2]

  • , 31 August–10 September 1954, Rome, Italy; academic conference organized by the UN;
  • , 30 August–10 September 1965, Belgrade, Yugoslavia; expert level conference organized by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) and the UN;
  • , 19–30 August 1974, Bucharest, Romania; the first International Conference on population organized at the intergovernmental level by the United Nations, attended by more than 1,400 delegates from 136 countries (from a total of 138 UN member states at the time);
  • , 6–14 August 1984, Mexico City, Mexico; the second International Conference on population, attended by representatives of 147 member states (from a total of 157 UN member states at the time);
  • International Conference on Population and Development, 5–13 September 1994, Cairo, Egypt; the third International Conference on population under the auspices of the UN, attended by 179 governmental delegations from UN member states, 7 observers at governmental level, the European Union, and several hundred NGOs.

In 30 June–2 July 1999, the in New York was dedicated to population and development.[1][3]

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  1. ^ a b United Nations Conferences on Population at un.org
  2. ^ World Population Prospects. The 2010 Revision (PDF) (Report). Vol. Volume I: Comprehensive Tables. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, United Nations, New York. 2011. p. 12. {{cite report}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  3. ^ 21st Special Session of the General Assembly
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