World Population Day is celebrated on July 11 each year to highlight the problems of overpopulation and raises awareness about the effects of overpopulation on the environment and development.
Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021
Every year there is a specific theme for World Population Day and the theme of World Population Day 2021 amid the pandemic is “Rights and choices are the answer: Whether baby boom or bust, the solution to shifting fertility rates lies in prioritizing the reproductive health and rights of all people.”
The first World Population Day was marked on July 11, 1989, and today, in 2020, the world will mark its 31st Population Day.
World Population Day was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989.
It was inspired by the public interest in Five Billion Day, the approximate date on which the world’s population reached five billion people on July 11, 1987.
