World population day is one of the most important awareness day celebrated annually on every 11th of July. The aim of celebrating the world population day is to spread awareness about the issues of the global population and the importance of reproductive health.
This awareness day was established by the governing council of the United Nations Development Program in 1989. This event was inspired by the public interest when the world’s population reaches by 5 billion and hence became a serious concern about the exploding population. Therefore,this day has to be initiated to overcome the issues of our growing population and to raise this awareness in public.
Theme of World Population Day 2025
According to UNFPA, this year world population day 2025 theme is Empowering Youth to Build the Families They Want
World Population Day 2025 draws attention to this issue by highlighting the largest generation of youth in history. Making sure young people have the rights, resources, and opportunities to direct their own lives is a key component of the theme, “Empowering young people to create the families they want in a fair and hopeful world.”
Young people are already leading the way in transformation, but they confront many challenges, including conflict, gender inequality, economic insecurity, inadequate healthcare and education, and climate devastation. The majority of respondents to a UNFPA–YouGov survey of more than 14,000 people in 14 countries said they wanted more children but were thwarted by social, financial, or health constraints.
The World Population Day is aims to raise awareness of various population problems such as the importance of family planning, gender equality, hunger, maternal health and human rights.
So what are Population issues? Basically, a Population issue includes family planning, gender equality, child marriage, human rights, right to health, baby’s health, etc.
History
In 1968 world leaders declared that people had a basic human right to decide the number and time of their children freely and responsibly. approximately 40 years later the modern contraception remains out of control for millions of women, men, and young people. In 1989, World Population Day was established as an outgrowth of Five Million Day, marked on July 11, 1987.
The United Nations has approved the event, as a way of increasing awareness of population problems and their impact on growth and the environment. And since then, with support from the United Nations Population Fund ( UNFPA), states, non-governmental organizations, organizations, and individuals have coordinated numerous educational programs to commemorate the annual event.
There are 9 standards which are set to support family planning:
- Non-discrimination: Family planning should not be cramped on the basis of race, sex, language, religion, national origin, age, economic status, place of residence, disability status, marital status, sexual orientation or gender identity.
- Available and Accessible: Every country must ensure that family planning commodities and services are available and accessible to everyone.
- Acceptable: Contraceptive measures and information must be conveyed in a dignified manner, respecting both modern medical ethics and cultures.
- Good quality: Family planning information must be accurate.
- Informed decision-making: Every person must be empowered to make reproductive choices with full autonomy, free of pressure, coercion or misrepresentation.
- Privacy and confidentiality: All individuals must enjoy the right to privacy when seeking family planning information and services.
- Participation: Countries should ensure the active participation of individuals in decisions that affect them, including health issues.
- Accountability: Everyone including leaders and policymakers must be accountable to the people they serve in all efforts to realize the human right to family planning.
How World Population Day is Celebrated?
World Population is celebrated at an international level where different activities and events are organized to draw attention to the major issues of the world’s population. Activities include seminar, discussion, educational sessions, public contests, poster making, slogans, workshops, debates, songs, etc.
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Swikriti Dandotia
Require more attention. the awareness among the public is not satisfactory towards world population day. First we have to start with educational institutions particularly among college students and school students.
It is not just about controlling the population but also about creating healthy society, this has to be spread over among all kind of age group. In addition to UNO, we need to have forum in national level, state level and district level too to make the people more aware about population issues.
what is theme of 2019 world population day?
Hi Ishmeen Kaur, this time there is not specific theme but they will show attention on the unmet goals of of 1994 International Conference on Population and Development which focus on “reproductive health and gender equality”.
Control of population is a need of the hour. Unless it is done the quality of life ,particularly in third world
countries, will not improve. In our country many people live at a sub-human level. Many children go undernourished and there are many people who are illiterate. To eradicate poverty and improve the quality of life control of population is indispensable.