World Population Day 2025:
This year’s World Population Day will take place on Friday, July 11, 2025, with the theme “Empowering young people to create the families they want in a fair and hopeful world”
- World Population Day (WPD) is Observed annually on July 11, World Population Day is a United Nations initiative aimed at raising awareness about the challenges and opportunities of global population growth.
- With the world population now surpassing 8.2 billion, the day highlights the importance of sustainable development, equitable access to resources, reproductive rights, and gender equality.
- World Population Day 2025 Theme: ‘Empowering young people to create the families they want in a fair and hopeful world’.
- WPD was established by the then-Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 1989, following the global interest generated by “Five Billion Day” on 11 July 1987, when the world’s population reached 5 billion.
- Dr KC Zachariah, a senior demographer at the World Bank, suggested that this day be commemorated.
