World Population Conference

The Third World Population Conference was organized by the United Nations and held in Bucharest, Romania, from 19 to 30 August 1974. This Conference, the first of an intergovernmental nature, was attended by representatives of 135 countries. The debate focused on the relationship between population issues and development. The outcome of the Conference, the World Population Plan of Action, states, among other principles, that the essential aim is the social, economic and cultural development of countries, that population variables and development are interdependent and that population policies and objectives are an integral part (constituent elements) of socio-economic development policies.