WORLD DAY 2021

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. The day was suggested by Dr. K.C.Zachariah in which population reaches Five Billion when he worked as Sr Demographer at World Bank. While press interest and general awareness in the global population surges only at the increments of whole billions of people, the increases annually by 100 million approximately every 14 months. HISTORY OF WORLD POPULATION DAY

Sure, you might know that there are more than seven billion people on earth right now, but how often do you stop to think about what that really means? Five Billion Day, in 1987, was meant to acknowledge the date on which the world’s population reached an estimated five billion people, which supposedly happened on July 11 of that year (hence the annual date for World Population Day). And look how much the population has increased since then! Population issues cover a lot of territories, from , , and environmental impacts to human rights concerns. World Population Day was established in 1989 by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme — UNDP. The inspiration for this holiday was the peaking public interest in the celebration of ‘Five Billion Day’ on July 11, 1987. This original date was decided to be set as ‘World Population Day’ by the United Nations General Assembly and resolution 45/216 made this official in December 1990.

UP CM YOGI ADITYANATH UNVEILS NEW POPULATION POLICY

The Uttar Pradesh government on Sunday released the new population policy for 2021-2030 on the occasion of World Population Day. In the new population policy, a target has been set to bring the birth rate to 2.1 per thousand by 2026 and to 1.9 by 2030. ❖ The state's total fertility rate is 2.7 percent currently. ❖ While unveiling the policy at the inauguration event, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that there should be a gap between two children in order to control the population in the state. ❖ The unveiling of the policy comes days after a draft of the population control bill was put up on the state law commission website. ❖ He further said that an increasing population was a 'hurdle in development' and that more efforts are needed to control it. ❖ "Across the world, from time to time, concerns have been expressed that increasing population can be a hurdle in development, and for the past four decades discussions on it are going on. is also related to . Every community has been taken care of in Population Policy 2021-2030," Adityanath said.

World Population Day 2021 theme

Every year, there is a different theme for World Population Day, which explores different aspects and issues related to the population planet Earth is hosting. The World Population Day 2021 theme is "Rights and Choices are the Answer: Whether baby boom or bust, the solution to shifting fertility rates lies in prioritising all people’s reproductive health and rights." The theme represents the complications inflicted by the Covid-19 outbreak upon the health care systems around the globe, particularly in the area of sexual and reproductive health.

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