News Archive

• Report of the Secretary-General on International migration and development (A/71/296)

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• Demographic Components of Future Population Growth: 2015 Revision

  New projections of the contributions of fertility, mortality, migration and the current age structure of population to future population growth. [read more]

• World Marriage Data 2015

  An up-to-date set of data on the marital status of the population by age and sex for 231 countries or areas of the world.

• World Population Ageing 2015

  A collection of new material released on the theme of World Population Ageing.

• Trends in Maternal Mortality: 1990 to 2015 Report

  New UN study released on 12 November 2015 reveals significant decline in maternal mortality – but much remains to be done [read more]

• World Contraceptive Use 2015

  New data and a series of annual estimates and projections (1970-2030) of family planning indicators for 195 countries or areas of the world are available. Read about the data and trends

• Report on the forty-eighth session of the Commission on Population and Development (E/CN.9/2015/7)

  The report provides a summary of the forty-eighth session, including an overview of its organization of work, deliberations and decisions.

• Preparing the world for important population changes

  In 2015, the world will adopt a new set of goals for the next fifteen years of sustainable development.

• Population, Consumption and the Environment 2015

  A newly released Wall Chart presenting the latest data available on 14 indicators at the national, regional and global levels.

• World Population Prospects: 2015 Revision

  The 2015 Revision provides the demographic data and indicators to assess population trends at the global, regional and national levels and to calculate many other key indicators [read more]

• 48th Session of the Commission on Population and Development
  New York, 13 to 17 April 2015

  Realizing the future we want: integrating population issues into sustainable development, including in the post-2015 development agenda
  

• Abortion Policies : New Publications

  New publication on Abortion Policies and Reproductive Health around the World and a supporting Population Fact Sheet. [read more]

• General Assembly Special Session on ICPD beyond 2014

  On 22 September 2014, world leaders united at UN Headquarters for the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the follow-up to the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) beyond 2014.  [Webcast]  [Statements]

• Probabilistic Population Projections (PPP)

  On 11 July the Population Division released a new revision of Probabilistic Population Projections, including stochastic projections of total fertility and life expectancy at birth for all countries and areas of the world.

• A/69/207-Report of the Secretary-General on International Migration and development

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• World population stabilization unlikely this century

  "recently released population projections based on data until 2012 and a Bayesian probabilistic methodology. Analysis of these data reveals that, contrary to previous literature, world population is unlikely to stop growing this century." [requires subscription for full article]

• World Contraceptive Use 2014

  This newest release presents data on key family planning indicators for 194 countries. Read more

• Population and Development in SIDS 2014 (wall chart)

  This wall chart presents the latest data available on 16 indicators of demographic, environmental and economic characteristics of the populations of SIDS, Read more

• Forty-seventh Session of the Commission on Population and Development

  The session focused on the "Assessment of the status of implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development." Read more

• 2013 High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development

  The High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development took place on 3 and 4 October 2013 in New York at United Nations Headquarters. Read more

• World Population Ageing 2013

  The World Population Ageing 2013 report provides a description of global trends in population ageing and includes new features on the socio-economic and health aspects of ageing. Read more

• Trends in Family Planning: The 2013 Revision

  New estimates and projections of family planning indicators are produced for 194 countries and areas of the world (an annual series from 1970 to 2030). Read more

• World Population Policies 2013

  Documenting changes in Government views and policies from 1976 to 2013. Read more

• New set of demographic maps available online

  Providing geographic visualizations on a broad set of data. Read more

• Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2013 Revision

  New global migrant stock estimates by age, sex and country of origin produced for all countries and areas in the world. Read more

• World Mortality Report 2013

  Focusing in particular on the implementation period of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, from 1990-1995 to 2010-2015. Read more

• Report of the Secretary-General on International Migration and Development

  High-level Dialogue on International Migration and Development, New York, 3-4 October 2013.

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• National Transfer Accounts Manual: Measuring and Analysing the Generational Economy (United Nations, 2013)

  National Transfer Accounts (NTA) provide a coherent accounting framework of economic flows from one age group or generation to another. This manual presents the concepts, methods and estimation procedures to measure these flows over the life-cycle. Read more

• Urban and Rural Population by Age and Sex, 1980-2015 (version 2, August 2013)

  This updates the first release, incorporating recently available data from the 2010 census round, improvements in the estimation procedure and the software used to process and display the data...read more.

• World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision

  Volume I: Comprehensive Tables. ST/ESA/SER.A/336. Read more
  Highlights and Advance Tables. ESA/P/WP.228. Read more

• International Migration Policies 2013

  International Migration Policies 2013 wall chart provides up-to-date and objective information on Government views and policies on immigration and emigration for all 193 Member States and three non-Member States of the United Nations.

• World Abortion Policies 2013

  World Abortion Policies 2013 wall chart provides information on legal grounds for abortion.

• World Population Policies 2011

  This report provides comprehensive and up-to-date information available on the population policy situation and trends for all countries from 1976 to 2011... read more

• 2013 Update for the MDG database

  Updated Data on Adolescent Birth Rate , Contraceptive Prevalence and Unmet Need for Family Planning...read more

• MortPak version 4.3

  Updated version of MortPak available for Public download... read more

• New Technical Paper on Internal Migration

  No. 2013/1 - Cross-national comparisons of internal migration: An update on global patterns and trends

• New Fertility and Family Planning Data

  World Contraceptive Use 2012, World Fertility Data 2012, World Marriage Data 2012

• The Lancet article

  National, regional, and global rates and trends in contraceptive prevalence and unmet need for family planning between 1990 and 2015: a systematic and comprehensive analysis - Article free of charge with registration