World Population Day is an annual event, observed on July 11 every year, which seeks to raise awareness of global population issues. The event was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989. It was inspired by the public interest in Five Billion Day on July 11, 1987-approximately the date on which the world's population reached five billion people.

World Population Day is a great event being celebrated all through the world annually on 11th of July. It is celebrated to increase the awareness of the people towards the worldwide population issues. It was first started in the year 1989 by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). It was exalted by the interest of the public when the global population became near about five billion at 11th of July in the year 1987.

It was the huge challenge for the development when the population on the earth has reached to around 7 billion in the year 2011. According to the decisions of the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in the year 1989, it was recommended that 11th of July every year should be noticed by the community globally and celebrated as the World Population Day in order to raise the awareness among common public and find out the real solutions to combat with the population issues. It was started to focus the required attention of people towards the importance of population issues.

Why World Population Day is celebrated?The aim of the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme is paying great attention towards the reproductive health problems of the community people as it is the leading cause of the ill health as well as the death of the pregnant women worldwide. It has been distinguished that around 800 women are dying daily in the procedure of giving birth to a baby. The campaign of the World Population Day every year increases the knowledge and skills of the people worldwide towards their reproductive health and family planning.

How World Population Day is celebratedWorld population day is celebrated on international level by organizing variety of activities and events to draw attention of mass people to work together on the issues of growing population. Some of the activities include seminar discussions, educational competitions, educational information sessions, essay writing competition, public contests on various topics, poster distribution, songs, sports activity, speeches, poems, artwork, slogans, themes and messages distribution, workshops, lectures, debates, round table discussions, news distribution through press conferences, TV channels and news channels, relay of population related programmes on radio and television and so many. Various health organizations and population divisions works together to solve population issues by organizing conferences, research works, meetings, project analysis and etc.

World Population Day Themes The theme of 2014 was “A time to reflect on population trends and related issues” and “ Investing in Young People”. The theme of 2013 was “Focus is on Adolescent Pregnancy”. The theme of 2012 was “Universal Access to Reproductive Health Services”. The theme of 2011 was “7 Billion Actions”. The theme of 2010 was “Be Counted: Say What You Need”. The theme of 2009 was “Fight Poverty: Educate Girls”. The theme of 2008 was “Plan Your Family, Plan Your Future”. The theme of 2007 was “Men at Work”. The theme of 2006 was “Being Young is Tough”. The theme of 2005 was “Equality Empowers”. The theme of 2004 was “ICPD at 10”. The theme of 2003 was “1,000,000,000 adolescents”. The theme of 2002 was “Poverty, Population and Development”. The theme of 2001 was “Population, Environment and Development”. The theme of 2000 was “Saving Women’s Lives”. The theme of 1999 was “Start the Count-up to the Day of Six Billion”. The theme of 1998 was “Approaching the Six Billion”. The theme of 1997 was “Adolescent Reproductive Health Care”. The theme of 1996 was “Reproductive Health and AIDS”.

108 billion people have ever lived on earth.

The recent population explosion is not because of increased birth rates, but decreases in death rates, with the help of medicine, agriculture yields, urbanization, technology, education, disease

prevention, and less war.

At this rate, the world’s population will double approximately every 40 years, to over 12 billion people by 2050.

More than 400 cities worldwide have a population of 1,000,000 or more.

China, India, USA, Indonesia, Brazil and Pakistan account for half the world’s people. More than one in three people

are Chinese or Indian.

If Facebook were a country, it would be the 3rd most populous in the world, with 500 million citizens.

As of 2010, the countries with the highest populations are China with 1.3 billion, India with 1.2 billion, and the United States with 307

million. Indonesia and Brazil are next with around 220 million people. India is expected to surpass China in population within a few years.

Cause of over populationIncreased birth rateMigrationDecreased death rate

Problems due to over population

Poster on world population day

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