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Huge potential for economic growth requires fulfilling the promise of youth, flagship report says
18 November 2014Urbanisation, Demographics and Adaptation to Climate Change in Semarang, Indonesia
Resource date: 01 September 2013
Author: UNFPA
Publisher: UNFPA
Population Ageing and Development 2012
Resource date: 2012
Author: UNFPA
Publisher: UNFPA
The wall chart on Population Ageing and Development 2012 presents the latest data available on 16 indicators including demographic, social and economic characteristics of the older population at the national, regional and world levels. It also contains illustrative maps and graphs, along with brief explanatory texts of selected regional and global trends on ageing and development.
Monitoring of population programmes, focusing on new trends in migration: demographic aspects
Resource date: 2013
Author: UNFPA
Publisher: UNFPA
Events
International Conference on Population
06 August - 14 August 1984
Mexico City, Mexico
Events
World Conference on Population
19 August - 30 August 1974
Bucharest, Romania
At the conference, the international community highlighted common concerns over emerging population issues by adopting the World Population Plan of Action, which helped governments and the international community coordinate trends in economic and social development related to population.
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Mobile technology and obstetric fistula
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