The IUSSP organizes the International Population Conference once every four years in a different country, in collaboration with a host country institution. This major international event draws some 2,000 population scholars, policymakers, and government officials from around the world to discuss the latest population research and debate pressing global and regional population issues.
Bids for the 2029 International Population Conference should be submitted on or before 15 March 2025. (read more)
IPC2025 - International Population Conference Brisbane, Australia, 13-18 July 2025
The IUSSP Council invites national population associations and other national institutions to consider hosting the XXXI International Population Conference in 2029.
Montréal 1993 New Delhi 1989 Florence 1985 Manila 1981 Mexico City 1977 Liège 1973 London 1969 Belgrade 1965 (jointly with the 2nd United Nations World Population Conference) Ottawa 1963 New York 1961 Vienna 1959 Stockholm 1957 Rio de Janeiro 1955 Rome 1954 (jointly with the 1st United Nations World Population Conference) Rome 1953 New Delhi 1951 Bern 1949 Washington 1947 Paris 1937 Berlin 1935 London 1931 Paris 1928
Regional or Thematic Conferences
The IUSSP, in co-operation with national professional associations, organised regional conferences in Sydney (1967) for Asia and Oceania; in Bangkok for South East Asia (2002); in Mexico City (1970) and Veracruz (1992) for Latin America; in Accra (1971) and Dakar (1988) for Africa; in Jyväskylä (1987), Paris (1991) and Milan (1995) for Europe and Cairo (1996) for the Arab world.
Two thematic conferences were organised, one on Economic and Demographic Change: Issues for the 1980s held in Helsinki in 1978, and the other on Women's Position and Demographic Change in the Course of Development held in Oslo in 1988. The regional and thematic conferences focus on specific problems relating either to a region or to a particular aspect of demography.
The IUSSP also participates in conferences organized by the Asian Population Association (APA), the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS), the Latin-American Population Association (ALAP), the Population Association of America (PAA), the Union for African Population Studies (UAPS), and the International Statistical Institute (ISI).
Past sponsors of the International Population Conference:
The IUSSP gratefully acknowledges the financial support it received from the following institutions and governments to organize the International and Regional Population Conferences since 1987:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Ford Foundation
Mellon Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation
UNAIDS
UNESCO
UNFPA
Wellcome Trust
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Governments of:
Australia
Canada
European Commission
France
Netherlands
Norway
Spain
United Kingdom
United States
Many participants from low-income countries could not have attended without this generous support.
The IUSSP is also grateful to the host country governments and other institutions (not listed above) that provided support to the National Organizing Committees.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has provided substantial financial support for the organization of every International Population Conference.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has provided substantial financial support for the organization of every International Population Conference.