Source material and useful links for World Population briefings

for Tread Softly background briefings on World Population

Projections and Trends

World Population Prospects 2019 Revision 10 Key Findings – from UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs
A Brief History of Population from New Internationalist

UN and Population

UN Population Fund
International Conference on Population and Development

Population and Development

Family Planning 2020
Family Planning News and Overview from UN Population Fund
Adding It Up: Investing in Contraception and Maternal and Newborn Health, 2017 from Guttmacher Institute
What is the Global Gag Rule? from PAI
International Planned Parenthood Federation
Population Institute
Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition

Census Programme

2020 World Population and Housing Census Programme
Census dates for all countries from UN Statistics Division

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more Population briefings (updated August 2021)
Introduction
World Population Projections
Demographic Transition
Demographic Dividend
Population Policies
Opposition to Family Planning
Overpopulation or Overconsumption?
Source material and useful links

Recent news and opinion about World Population

Counting everyone to leave no one behind

15/9/2021: A quarter of births go unregistered every year, along with an estimated two-thirds of annual deaths worldwide. Having complete information is essential for governments to direct resources to the most urgent challenges.

Source: Devex

The value of investing in Pakistan’s family planning

27/8/2021: Pakistan’s fertility rate is 3.6 births per woman. It has the lowest contraceptive prevalence rate in South Asia and one of the highest birth sex ratios skewed in favour of males. The government should invest more in the Lady Health Workers program.

Source: East Asia Forum

Problems with Uttar Pradesh’s population bill

14/8/2021: The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh has proposed a new population policy which appears to revert to coercive methods of limiting families to two children. India has long committed to focus instead on unmet needs for family planning, education and healthcare.

Source: East Asia Forum

Maximising Indonesia’s demographic dividend

22/6/2021: Preliminary results from Indonesia's 2020 population census suggest that the country is still in the ‘sweet spot’ of its demographic transition. Will Indonesia be able to boost productive employment and move rapidly towards high income status like Taiwan and South Korea?

Source: East Asia Forum

Beijing wants more children, but only a certain kind

15/6/2021: The Chinese government has announced that it will allow all couples to have three children, an increase from two. But one-child, two-child or three-child policies are all the same. All are infringements on women’s reproductive rights: treating human beings as instruments of achieving the goals of the state.

Source: The Interpreter

China’s new population numbers won’t doom its growth

6/6/2021: China’s latest census, a once-in-a-decade event, shows that the population is likely to decline for the rest of this century. What are the demographic implications for China’s economic momentum?

Source: East Asia Forum

China 2020 census shows fall in population growth

11/5/2021: China's population growth in the decade to 2020 slumped to 5.38 per cent, the lowest since official records began in the 1950s. The results of the country's 2020 census showed a total population of 1.41 billion. China's birth rate has been in steady decline since 2017.

Source: CNA

Pandemic sets back sexual and reproductive health rights

15/4/2021: The UN's State of the World Population 2021 report paints a disturbing picture of maternal health. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in increasing sexual violence, more unintended pregnancies, and new barriers to reproductive health services, contributing to a maternal mortality ratio of 211 for every 100,000 live births.

Source: Devex

China considers new actions to lift flagging birth rate

19/2/2021: China's National Health Commission has issued a statement saying it will conduct research to “further stimulate birth potential". Despite ending its controversial one-child policy four years ago, the plunging birth rate continues to threaten to economic progress and social stability, .

Source: CNA

Biden acts to undo Trump damage to women’s health

28/1/2021: President Joe Biden has issued a presidential memorandum that addresses four regressive policies of the past administration. In particular, it revokes the Protecting Life in Global Health Policy, also known as the “Global Gag Rule.”

Source: Human Rights Watch

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