Population events
Past conferences, annual meetings, and research gatherings on demography, population data, and long-run human trends — with context and key takeaways.
Population Association of America — 2024 Annual Meeting
The world's largest gathering of academic demographers convened in Columbus with 2,000+ attendees and sessions covering fertility decline, ageing, migration, and data methods. Key findings from the UN WPP 2024 and the Lancet fertility projections were presented and debated.
Read recapEuropean Population Conference 2024
EAPS brought ~900 demographers to Edinburgh for the biennial EPC — the flagship European demography conference. Record-low EU fertility (1.46 average TFR), post-COVID mortality recovery divergence between East and West, ageing pension systems, and migration as a demographic buffer were the central themes.
Read recapIUSSP International Population Conference 2021
The 29th International Population Conference — the world's largest global demography congress — convened virtually for the first time, drawing 3,000+ researchers from 120 countries. COVID-19's impact on mortality data, the global baby bust, sub-Saharan Africa data gaps, and satellite-based population mapping dominated sessions.
Read recapAfrican Population Conference 2023
The biennial flagship of the Union for African Population Studies (UAPS) convened in Kigali, drawing ~1,200 demographers from 50+ countries. The demographic dividend, fertility decline hotspots across East and West Africa, DHS/MICS methodology improvements, and youth employment dominated sessions.
Read recapWorld Urban Forum 11 — Transforming Our Cities for a Better Urban Future
The 11th World Urban Forum, the world's largest urban gathering, drew 20,000+ participants to Katowice. Rapid urban population growth, 1.1 billion informal settlement residents, climate resilience in cities, and progress on the New Urban Agenda were the central themes.
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