Demographic Futures Thematic Fund

The Demographic Futures Thematic Fund (formerly the Population Data Thematic Fund) supports countries to anticipate, adapt to and harness demographic change, enabling them to build more resilient, inclusive and sustainable societies. This work depends on robust population data, forward-looking analysis, and policies grounded in human rights and informed choices.

News

Ukraine humanitarian response supported by data collaboration

Ukrainian refugees receive psychosocial support in Moldova. © UNFPA/Siegfried Modola
  • 09 June 2022
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News

Population census enters the digital age in Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan recently completed its third population and housing census since independence in 1991. Some 24,000 enumerators, like the one above (left) in Suusamyr Valley, Chuy region, were recruited to survey the population of almost 7 million. @UNFPA Kyrgyzstan/Kanat Kubatbekov
  • 20 May 2022
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Kyrgyzstan conducts national population and housing census

20 May 2022

Updates

Data initiative to end violence against women goes global: kNOwVAWdata

16 May 2022

Una Raileqe of Fiji, a participant in the 2019 kNOwVAWdata Course on the Measurement of Violence against Women. © UNFPA/Dr Henriette Jansen
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Humanitarian response in Ukraine is powered by population data

16 May 2022

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Resources

UNFPA Population Data Thematic Fund

Resource date: Mar 2020

Author: UNFPA

UNFPA’s Population Data Thematic Fund (Pop Data Fund) addresses long standing shortfalls in population data and related human capacity. The Pop Data Fund expands the scope and quality of modern census and registry data, increases the use of geo-referenced population data to accelerate progress towards the SDGs, and advances the objectives of UNFPA’s mandate.

Resources

World population trends

Resource date: Aug 2017

It took hundreds of thousands of years for the world population to grow to 1 billion – then in just another 200 years or so, it grew sevenfold...

Resources

Census

Resource date: Aug 2019

A population and housing census is among the most complex and massive peacetime exercises a nation can undertake. It requires careful planning, resourcing and implementation...

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