World Population day 2020 theme, Importance, why we celebrate

World Population day 2020 theme, Importance, why we celebrate

"The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is the world’s blueprint for a better future for all on a healthy planet. On World Population Day, we recognize that this mission is closely interrelated with demographic trends including population growth, ageing, migration and urbanization." -UN Secretary-General António Guterres

A very special day for raising awareness amongst the people worldwide.

Rising population day by day is a big concern for the world. due to this perspective, every year world population day celebrated worldwide on July 11 since 1989 by the Governing Council of the United Nation. lots of people may not know about this most important day. this issue does not harm any particular country but all the nations who are establishing on the Earth. especially, developing countries like India and most of the African country. The aim of this day is to focus the world’s attention on the importance of population issues.

There is around 7.8 Billion POPULATION exist right now according to 2018's data. World Population Day aims to increase people's awareness of various population issues such as the importance of family planning, gender equality, poverty, maternal health and environmental impacts on human rights concerns.

National population day in India is also observed annually on 11th of July. because the population of India is a big concern for all of us.

world population day 2020 Importance and awareness

Awareness of population, If you live a comfortable lifestyle in a first world country like the United States and the United Kingdom, you reasonably don’t think of population issues of having that much of an effect on your daily life. However, the more people are added to the population, the more power and food are needed to sustain all of them. It’s hard to keep up that food and power production at the rate that the population is growing, and efforts to do so are giving greatly to climate change, which affects you no matter where you live on the whole earth.

As I said earlier if you are living in a well-developed country you may not face the daily surviving life problem issues, which a non developed country's people face in their daily life like the population of India. And nowadays we saw many of example which affected by rising population In India. other states' people stuck in another state due to COVID-19 and most of them from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. because lots of them migrated for labour work daily wages in other states. objectives of world population day, rising population threatening the jobs curriculum in the country which is very harmful to each and every one. so spread awareness in social media platforms like #populationday.

World Population Day certainly reminds us to look at the current population and population issues that influence how people live now. However, it’s really focused on the future, and what efforts it will take to slow population growth. world population day activities like that, The most important thing to think of is what the world will look like for your kids, grandkids, great-grandkids, etc. if the population continues to grow at this rate. how we can imagine a safe world for our little kids?

Population issues directly affect people in developing countries. For instance, did you know that people in very poor countries have life anticipation that’s almost 20 years shorter than people in rich, developed countries? How about that 1/3 of population growth is due to unplanned pregnancies, which often happen when people are lacking education and family planning services? world population day campaigns may help this issue, World Population Day is a good reminder to step outside ourselves and focus on these important issues. ( from national today)

world population day 2020 History

The day was suggested by Dr K.C.Zachariah in which population reaches Five Billion when he worked as Sr Demographer at World Bank.

While press interest and general awareness in the global population surges only at the increments of whole billions of people, the world population increases annually by 100 million approximately every 14 months. The world population reached 7,400,000,000 on February 6, 2016; the world population had reached 7,500,000,000 at around 16:21 on April 24, 2017. The world population had reached 7,700,000,000 in the year 2019.^[1] In November, UNFPA, together with the governments of Kenya and Denmark, will be convening a high-level conference in Nairobi to accelerate efforts to achieve these unmet goals. On World Population Day, advocates from around the world are calling on leaders, policymakers, grassroots organizers, institutions and others to help make reproductive health and rights a reality for all. ( from Wikipedia )

2018 marked the 50th anniversary of a conference that focused on family planning. In 1968, the International Conference on Human Rights was held. For the first time ever, family planning was affirmed to be a human right. The Tehran Proclamation, adopted during the conference, states that it is a basic right of parents to be able to decide on the number and spacing of their children. ( from awareness days)

Five Billion Day was meant to acknowledge the date that the world’s population reached five billion people, which supposedly happened on July 11 of that year (hence the annual date). And look how much the population has increased since then! Population issues cover a lot of territories, from family planning to gender equality to environmental impacts to human rights concerns.

World population day 2020 theme

According to UNFPA, the theme for world population day 2020 is "Putting the brakes on COVID-19: how to safeguard the health and rights of women and girls now"

This year the focus of the world population day 2020 UNFPA to raise awareness about sexual and reproductive health needs and vulnerabilities of women and girls during the pandemic, to highlight how we can safeguard hard-fought gains and ensure that SRHR stays on the local agenda, and to explore how to maintain the momentum towards achieving the SDGs by 2030 that we rallied at the Nairobi Summit.

The world population day 2020 slogan, UNFPA especially focus on women problem like Moreover, women disproportionately work in insecure labour markets and are harder hit by the economic impacts of COVID-19. Nearly 60 per cent of women worldwide work in the informal economy, at greater risk of falling into poverty. Women’s unpaid care work has increased as a result of school closures and the increased needs of older people. 

The impact of COVID-19 on the “Three Zeros.” Whether your country faces challenges of gender-based violence, child marriage and female genital mutilation, or making contraceptive services more available and accessible, this recently issued analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic’s potential for exacerbating problems, such as unintended pregnancies, including those among adolescents.

The UNFPA's especially concern on Challenges for women and girls in humanitarian settings. Through the United Nations Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UNFPA and other United Nations agencies, programmes, departments and funds issued appeals to assist the vulnerable communities in humanitarian settings.

At last, my humble request to all the fellow people, take this issue in a very serious way. spread good and meaningful awareness about world population day. 

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