United Nations Population Award laureates

2026
Professor Serigne Magueye Gueye (Senegal)
Fondation Bonne Action Umugiraneza (Burundi)

2025
Varsha Deshpande (India)
International Union for the Scientific Study of Population

2024
Dr. Haifa Abu Ghazaleh (Jordan)
National Alliance to End Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage in Ethiopia

2023
Angeline Ndayishimiye (Burundi)
African Institute for Development Policy

2022
Emma Theofelus (Namibia)
National Population and Family Planning Board (Indonesia)

2021
Commissaire Hassane Haousseize Zouera (Niger)
General Directorate of Population of Oaxaca (Mexico)

2020
Her Majesty Gyalyum Sangay Choden Wangchuck, Queen Mother of Bhutan (Bhutan)
HelpAge India

2019 
Mamadou Tangara (The Gambia)
National Peace Hut Women of Liberia

2018
Dr. Sir Prince Ramsey (Antigua and Barbuda)
Guttmacher Institute (United States of America)
Save a Child’s Heart (Israel)

2017
Hans Rosling (Sweden)
Association of Traditional Chiefs of Niger

2016
Carmen Barroso (Brazil)
Childbirth in Dignity Foundation (Poland)

2015
Dr. Thoraya Obaid ( Saudi Arabia)
African Population and Health Research Centre (Kenya)

2014
Father Aldo Marchesini (Italy)
Johns Hopkins Programme for International Education in Gynaecology and Obstetrics (Jhpiego)

2013
Dr. Jotham Musinguzi (Uganda)
The International Islamic Centre for Population Studies and Research

2012
Ms. Adrienne Germain (United States of America)
Federation of Reproductive Health Associations (Malaysia)

2011
Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi (Iran)
Institut de Formation et de Recherche Démographique (Cameroon)

2010
Bill Gates and Melinda Gates (United States of America)
Asian Forum of Parliamentarians for Population and Development

2009
Dr. Mahmoud Fathalla (Egypt)
Movimiento Comunal Nicaragüense 

2008
Dame Billie Antoinette Miller (Barbados)
Family Care International (United States of America)

2007
Dr. Allan Rosenfield, Dean and Professor of Family Health (United States of America)
Dr. Hossein Malek Afzali (Iran)
Le Comité National de Population of Algeria
The National Population and Family Planning Board of Malaysia

2006
Dr. Halida Hanum Akhter (Bangladesh)
Fondation Pour la Santé Reproductive et l'Éducation Familiale (Haïti)

2005
Mercedes B. Concepcion (Philippines)
Asociación Pro Bienestar de la Familia de Guatemala

2004
Prof. John C. Caldwell (Australia)
Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital (Ethiopia)

2003
Werner Fornos (United States of America)
Family Planning Association of Kenya

2002
Dr. Kwasi Odoi-Agyarko (Ghana)
EngenderHealth (United States of America)

2001
Dr. Nafis Sadik (Pakistan)
Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning

2000
Prof. Ismail Awadallah Salam (Egypt)
Fundación Mexicana para la Planeación Familiar (Mexico)

1999
Dr. Syed Alireza Marandi (Iran)
National Committee for Population and Family Planning (Viet Nam)

1998
Hugh H. Wynter (Jamaica)
Sabiny Elders Association (Uganda)

1997
Elizabeth Aguire de Calderón Sol (El Salvador)
Toshio Kuroda (Japan)
Mechai Viravaidya (Thailand)

1996
Leticia Ramos Shahani (Philippines)
Pathfinder International

1995
Halfdan Mahler (Denmark)
Inter -African Committee on the Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children

1994
President Hosni Mubarak (Egypt)
Turkish Family Health and Planning Foundation

1993
Fred T. Sai (Ghana)
Mainichi Shimbun Population Problems Research Council

1992
J.R.D. Tata (India)
The Population Council

1991
Julia J. Henderson (United States of America)
Centre for Population Studies and Responsible Parenthood (Ecuador)

1990
Prof. Alfred Sauvy (France)
National Family Health and Population Council of Mauritius

1989
President Soeharto (Indonesia)
Programme National de Bien-être Familial du Togo

1988
Shidzue Kato (Japan)
PROFAMILIA (Colombia)

1987
President Hussain Muhammad Ershad (Bangladesh)
National Family and Population Office of Tunisia

1986
National Population Council of Mexico

1985 
International Planned Parenthood Federation

1984
Carmen A. Miro (Panama)
Sheldon J. Segal (United States of America)

1983
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (India)
Qian Xinzhong (China)