The United Nations World Population Conference (WPC) was held August 19-30 1974 in Bucharest, Romania, at a time when “population explosion” in Least Developed Countries (LDC) was a concern for “world peace”!  The World Population Plan of Action Plan was adopted at Bucharest and “facilitated international co-operation to help bring population issues to the forefront” it “served as a guide to action in the field of population for Governments, for international organizations and for non-governmental organizations”. [1, 2, 3]

  • The first population meeting was held in 1954 in Rome, and second in 1965 in Belgrad
  • In 1974 to global population reached 4 billion
  • The UN convened two more conferences on population (Mexico City, 1984; ICPD, 1994) which reaffirmed the World Population Plan of Action
  • World population reach one billion in 1804. It took 123 years to reach 2 billion in 1927, 33 years to reach 3 billion in 1960, 14 years to reach 4 billion in 1974 and 13 years to reach 5 billion in 1987, 12 years to reach 6 billion in 1999, 12 years to reach 7 billion in 2011, 11 years to reach 8 billion in 2022
  • The same year The Kissenger Report is released