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Headline Population and Family Planning

Caption Description Each year an estimated eighty million people arrive on earth, putting great strains on governments to provide for them. For five days in April 1981, representatives from 76 nations met in Jakarta, Indonesia for an International Conference on Family Planning in the 1980s to discuss ways to reduce the number. The conferees encouraged the nations that now support family planning – now numbering 118 – to upgrade and expand their efforts through more widespread education, dissemination of contraceptives, voluntary sterilization and other methods, but recommended restricted use of cash incentives to promote particular birth control methods “because they tend to distort the user’s perspective and may lead to abuse.”

A Bengali child pauses against a whitewashed wall while running an errand. [1981]

Unique Identifier UN7557925

NICA ID 293563

Production Date 01/01/1981 9:37:15 AM

Country Bangladesh

Credit UN Photo/John Isaac