2021 International Population Conference

Online, 5-10 December 2021

 

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The XXIX International Population Conference (IPC 2021) was the first fully virtual international population conference ever organised by the IUSSP. It was initially planned to be held as an in-person conference in Hyderabad, India, 5-10 December 2021 at the Hyderabad International Conference Centre. Due to the COVID pandemic, the International and National Organising Committees decided that it would not be possible to convene the conference in Hyderabad as planned and converted the conference to an entirely virtual event taking place on the same dates. Approximately 1,288 population scientists, students and policy makers from 90 countries registered for the conference and 1,221 individuals participated in the live sessions which were held around the clock over 20 hours per day to accommodate participants from around the globe. 

 

The IUSSP is very grateful to the India National Organising Committee (NOC) and other Indian colleagues for their continued involvement in IPC2021 and their efforts to organise the India-Day sessions even though in the end it was not possible to host the Conference in Hyderabad. The IUSSP is also grateful to its donors, without whom this conference could not have taken place. And finally, the IUSSP thanks all those who reviewed and selected papers before the conference and all those who participated in the conference. 

 

Conference figures:

  • 1,650 submissions to the Call for Papers
  • 1,305 papers accepted on the programme
  • 792 papers accepted for presentation in 176 regular sessions
  • 30 invited and special sessions created by the IOC
  • 513 papers accepted to present as posters and approximately 300 presented in Poster sessions
  • 1,307 participants joining from 82 countries and representing 94 nationalities
  • 6 pre-conference events: webinars, training workshops and mentoring activities
  • 24 exhibitors

 

Additional information can be found in the conference report and the evaluation report based on the post-conference survey of conference participants. 

 

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Selected recorded sessions:

 

 
 
Invited sessions:
 
Sessions organized by IUSSP Scientific Panels: 
 
Research Leader sessions:

 

India Day Research Leader sessions:

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Best Poster Awards: 

 

 
 
 
 

 

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IPC2021 Countdown Events:

 

The IPC2021 conference was preceded by a series of preconference '"countdown events":

 

Training Workshop: Geoprocessing and Spatial Analysis

  • Instructor: Igor Cavallini Johansen

Training Workshop: Introduction to Multistate Analysis of Population Dynamics

  • Organizer: Kim Xu
  • Instructor: Dr. James O'Donnel

 

Virtual short course: Subnational Probabilistic Population Projections

  • Sponsored by IUSSP, University of Washington, UNFPA and NICHD.
  • Course Instructors: Adrian Raftery and Hana Ševčíková


Webinar: Climate change and population dynamics

  • Organizers: Susana B. Adamo, Raya Muttarak, Alex de Sherbinin
  • Panelists: Kathryn Grace, Clark Gray, Joan Ballester, Wolfgang Lutz, Landy Sánchez
 

Debate: If the wife says that she wants no more births, but the husband does want another birth, can one necessarily say that her subsequent pregnancy is unwanted?

  • Debaters: Sunday Adedini, Suzana Cavenaghi, Francis Dodoo anf K.G. Santhya
  • Introduction Stan Becker 
  • Moderator: Ambrose Akinlo
  • Synthesis and closing remarks: Neetu John

 

Networking event: Your career after a PhD? (3 sessions: Asia & Pacific; Europe & Africa; Americas)

  • Organizers: Jenny Garcia, Pavel Grigoriev and Adrien Remund
  • Presenters: Aparajita Chattopadhyay, Collin Payne, Nandita Saikia, Shalini Verma, Ridhi Kashyap, Adam Lenart, Felix zur Nieden, Abdoul-Moumouni Nouhou, Stephen Ojiambo Wandera, Arlette Simo Fotso, Sergey Timonin, Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, Helena Castanheira, Jamaica Corker, Elizabeth Flores, Mathias Nathan, Thomas Spoorenberg.

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The IUSSP thanks the following institutions for their support to make IPC2021 a success:

  • UNFPA
  • India Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India
  • India Association for the Study of Population (IASP)
  • International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)
  • African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP)
  • CEDEPLAR, Federal University of Minas Gerais
  • India Health Action Trust (IHAT)
  • Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques (INED)
  • IPUMS
  • Learning4impact, Swasti
  • Population Council
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM)
  • Université de Montréal
  • USAID-India
 

A special thanks to UNFPA for providing support to IUSSP for the virtual Conference platform.