On Friday, July 11 is the 2025 commemoration of World Population Day, an annual event, observed to raise awareness about the problems of the world's population, such as family planning, gender equality, poverty, maternal health and human rights; It promotes worldwide attention to population problems, with the aim of promoting sustainable development and well -being.
The event, established by the United Nations Development Program in 1989, was inspired by the public interest in five billion days on July 11, 1987, when the global population reached five billion. This day encourages worldwide attention to population problems, with the aim of promoting sustainable development and well -being.
Avals awareness to highlight the problems related to the population and its impact on development, advocates access to family planning services to improve maternal and child health, emphasize the importance of gender equality to achieve sustainable development and these objectives have been linked to the objectives of sustainable development in particular: SDG 3: Good health and well -being: Promote access to health services for all and SDG 5: Support initiatives.
It is a day that unites defenders, leaders and organizations to address the challenges of the population and serves as a platform for dialogue and action, with the aim of creating a future where everyone can access reproductive health services and enjoy their rights.
And as the world observes World Population Day 2025, the approach has not diverted from the objective of a world where each person has access to health services, the rights are maintained and sustainable development is achieved.
This year, attention focuses on young families with the issue, “empowering young people to create families who want in a fair and hopeful world.”
Global fertility rates are falling, which causes warnings about the “collapse of the population.” But the World Population State Report of the United Nations Nation Fund (UNFPA) shows that the real problem is the lack of reproductive agency that has made many people, especially young people, cannot have the children they want.
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World Population Day 2025 will highlight this challenge, focusing on the largest generation of young people. The issue requires ensuring that young people have the rights, tools and opportunities to shape their future.
According to a UNFPA-Yogov survey of more than 14,000 people in 14 countries, young people are already promoting change, but face great obstacles: economic insecurity, gender inequality, medical care and limited education, climate interruption and conflict. The survey found that most wanted more children, but were prevented by social, economic or health barriers.
It is defended that to respond to the trends of the global population effectively, leaders must prioritize the needs and voices of young people. They need more than services; They need hope, stability and a future that is worth planning.
A youth activist told Unfpa: “Young people are not only thinking about their future children, but are thinking about the world that children will inherit.” Supporting your rights is key to sustainable development, peace and human dignity.
The world population growth has followed a trend that has generated concerns in many sectors; The world population took hundreds of thousands of years to grow to one billion, then in just 200 years or less, grew seven times. In 2011, the world's population reached the 7 billion brand, is almost 7.9 billion in 2021, and is expected to grow around 8.5 billion in 2030, 9.7 billion in 2050 and 10.9 billion in 2100.
This dramatic growth has been largely driven by increasing the number of people who survive the reproductive age, and has been accompanied by major changes in fertility rates, increasing urbanization and accelerating migration. These trends will have long -range implications for coming generations.
The recent past has seen huge changes in fertility rates and life expectancy. In the early 1970s, women had an average of 4.5 children each; For 2015, total fertility for the world had fallen to less than 2.5 children per woman. Meanwhile, the average global sections of 64.6 years in the early 1990s to 72.6 years in 2019 have increased.
In addition, the world is seeing high levels of urbanization and acceleration of migration. 2007 was the first year in which more people lived in urban areas that in rural areas, and by 2050 around 66 percent of the world's population according to the estimate, will live in cities.
These megaters have long -range implications. They affect economic development, employment, income distribution, poverty and social protections. They also affect efforts to guarantee universal access to medical care, education, housing, sanitation, water, food and energy. To address the needs of people more sustainably, policy formulators must understand how many people live on the planet, where they are, how many years are they and how many people will come after them. And this underlines the commemoration of World Population Day.