🌎 World Populations Day

World Population Day is an annual event, observed on July 11 per annum , which seeks to boost awareness of worldwide population issues. The event was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989.[2] it had been inspired by the general public interest in Five Billion Day on July 11, 1987, the approximate date on which the world's population reached five billion people. World Population Day aims to extend people's awareness on various population issues like the importance of birth control , gender equality, poverty, maternal health and human rights.[3]

World Population Day
Date	July 11
Next time	11 July 2022
Frequency	annual

Distribution of global population increase in 2016

The day was suggested by Dr. K.C.Zachariah during which population reaches Five Billion when he worked as Sr Demographer at International Bank for Reconstruction and Development .

While press interest and general awareness within the global population surges only at the increments of whole billions of individuals , the planet population increases annually by 100 million approximately every 14 months. the planet population reached 7,400,000,000 on February 6, 2016; the planet population had reached 7,500,000,000 at around 16:21 on April 24, 2017. the planet population had reached 7,700,000,000 on year 2019.

In November, UNFPA, along side the governments of Kenya and Denmark, are going to be convening a high-level conference in Nairobi to accelerate efforts to realize these unmet goals. On World Population Day, advocates from round the world are calling on leaders, policymakers, grassroots organizers, institutions et al. to assist make reproductive health and rights a reality for all.