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World Population Day 2024: The global event of World Population Day is observed every year to spread awareness about prevalent global population concerns. Every year on July 11, people celebrate World Population Day to educate people about the urgency of population issues. 

World Population Day 2024 History

The United Nations declared 1989 to be World Population Day. The significance of the world's population surpassing about five billion on July 11, 1987, served as the impetus for the creation of this unique occasion. Dr. K.C. Zachariah suggested a celebration of this day. World Population Day was founded to address concerns related to the world's population, including poverty, maternal health, economic hardships, and many other difficulties.

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World Population Day 2024 Significance

The goal of Agenda Sustainable Development 2030 is a peaceful and sustainable future, and World Population Day serves as a reminder that we can attain it. In a statement released annually on World Population Day, the United Nations Population Fund asks readers to ‘‘Imagine a world where all 8 billion of us have a future bursting with promise and potential.'

In addition to providing statistics and experiences to support women and girls globally, the United Nations Population Funds (UNFPA) allows us to draw attention to the importance of advancing gender equality in order to help all eight billion people on our planet realise their goals.

World Population Day 2024 Theme

Every year, the celebrations around World Population Day revolve around a certain theme. The theme for World Population Day 2023 was ‘Imagine a world where all 8 billion of us have a future bursting with promise and potential.’

Facts About Population

The world’s population is more than three times larger than it was in the mid-twentieth century. 

The global human population reached 8.0 billion in mid-November 2022 from an estimated 2.5 billion people in 1950, adding 1 billion people since 2010 and 2 billion since 1998, as per the United Nations.

The world’s population is expected to increase by nearly 2 billion persons in the next 30 years, from the current 8 billion to 9.7 billion in 2050 and could peak at nearly 10.4 billion in the mid-2080s.

On 15 November 2022, the world’s population reached 8 billion people, a milestone in human development.

China (1.4 billion) and India (1.4 billion) remain the two most populous countries of the world, both with more than 1 billion people, each representing nearly 18 per cent of the world’s population, respectively.

India's population is expected to keep growing for several decades.

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World Population Day 2024 Quotes

Overpopulation is the definition of being forced by others or focusing on others to live with people they don’t want. Control the global population and celebrate World Population Day.

Be responsible, and save nature. Control population growth and ensure a healthy planet. Celebrate World Population Day and raise awareness.

Live bravely and enjoy the beautiful things the world has to offer. Control the population and celebrate World Population Day.

Our mother earth can’t feed so many people. Control the global population for our nature’s sake and celebrate this Day. Best wishes on World Population Day.

A peaceful world cannot exist when only one-third are rich and two-thirds go hungry. So, control the population and stop overcrowding. Best wishes on World Population Day.