World Population Conference

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Monday, 19 August 1974 - 10:00am to Friday, 30 August 1974 - 6:00pm

The Third World Population Conference was organized by the United Nations and held in Bucharest, Romania, from 19 to 30 August 1974. This Conference, the first of an intergovernmental nature, was attended by representatives of 135 countries. The debate focused on the relationship between population issues and development. The outcome of the Conference, the World Population Plan of Action, states, among other principles, that the essential aim is the social, economic and cultural development of countries, that population variables and development are interdependent and that population policies and objectives are an integral part (constituent elements) of socio-economic development policies.

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MSTOCKTO — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 17:13:00 +0000

Tuesday, 31 August 1954 - 10:00am to Friday, 10 September 1954 - 6:00pm

The First World Population Conference organized by the United Nations was held in Rome in 1954 to exchange scientific information on population variables, their determinants and their consequences. This eminently academic Conference resolved basically to generate fuller information on the demographic situation of the developing countries and to promote the creation of regional training centres which would help to address population issues and to prepare specialists in demographic analysis.

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World Population Conference

Population Division - World Population Conference

World Population Conference

World Population Conference