WORLD POPULATION DAY

About:

• The day seeks to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues.
  
  
• It was established by the then-Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989, an outgrowth of the interest generated by the Day of Five Billion, which was observed on 11 July 1987.
  
  
• The Day was first marked on 11 July 1990 in more than 90 countries.
  
  
• This year's World Population Day calls for global attention to the unfinished business of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development.