In 2000 the United Nations set eight goals for global development, to be achieved by 2015, known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). The MDGs made no reference to population growth and gave no recognition of its impact. The APPG initiated these parliamentary hearings because many of the countries with the greatest levels of poverty and greatest need to achieve the MDGs also have high birth rates and rapidly growing populations. The inquiry called for empirical evidence from professional, academic and institutional sources worldwide, asking whether growing populations were affecting achievement of the MDGs. This report and the conclusions and recommendations are based on the statistics and views presented during these hearings.
Return of the Population Growth Factor: Its Impact upon the Millennium Development Goals (2007)
