Tag: World Population Day

• Tuesday, July 11th 2017 - 07:05 UTC

  World Population Day

  

  World Population Day, which seeks to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues, was established by the then-Governing Council of the United Nations Development Program in 1989, an outgrowth of the interest generated by the Day of Five Billion, which was observed on 11 July 1987.

• Wednesday, July 13th 2011 - 00:29 UTC

  The year of the seven-billionth baby, up two billion since July 1987

  

  The United Nations marked on Monday July 11, World Population Day, with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressing that ending global poverty and inequality was the key to unleashing the great human potential for prosperity and peaceful coexistence.