Fact Sheets

U.S. Population Assistance
Over 98 percent of the world's population growth is occurring in the developing world where access to basic contraception and family planning education is far from assured.
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Talking Points About International Family Planning
There has been phenomenal world population growth in your lifetime. The population of the world was 1 billion in 1830, 2 billion in 1930, 3 billion in 1960, 4 billion in 1975, five billion in 1987, and 6 billion in 1997.
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Q & A: Population and the Environment
Q: Why is international family planning an environmental issue?
A: Pressure from rapid population growth destroys bird and wildlife habitat. Overpopulation increases air and water pollution and strains water supplies.
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The Unmet Need for Family Planning
Across the world people want one simple thing: to be able to determine their own future. Yet in much of the developing world, hundreds of millions of poor men and women are unable to achieve this goal because they lack access to basic contraceptive services.
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Population Momentum
Population momentum is a fundamental demographic concept which, if understood, explains why current population growth rates in the developing world are important to the future of the planet, and why low-fertility rates in the industrialized world are of relatively little concern to most demographers
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Consumption & Habitat
The United States can -- and must -- do a great deal more to slow resource use of all kinds. No country on earth uses natural resources at the rate of American consumers.
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U.S. Population Growth
The population of the U.S. has grown dramatically over the course of the last 100 years, from under 80 million in 1900, to nearly 180 million in 1970, to over 280 million in the year 2000.
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Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)
At the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held in Cairo in 1994, 179 countries - including the U.S. - endorsed a plan to address population growth, development, and environmental quality and to make family planning universally available by 2015.
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