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 First World Population Conference organized by the United Nations was held in Rome in 1954 to exchange scientific information on population variables, their determinants and their consequences. This eminently academic Conference resolved basically to generate fuller information on the demographic situation of the developing countries and to promote the creation of regional training centres which would help to address population issues and to prepare specialists in demographic analysis.
