World Population Day 2021: Slogans, Quotes, Messages, and more

World Population Day 2021: It is celebrated on 11 July to raise awareness among the public about the effects of overpopulation on humans and also on the environment. Let us have a look at some slogans, quotations, and messages on this day to generate awareness and to highlight the overpopulation issue.

History

World Population Day came about in 1989 and was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme. Its main idea was to raise awareness among the public about the detrimental effects of overpopulation not only on humans but on the environment as well. It also highlights the health problems faced by childbearing women and the importance of family planning, gender equality, poverty, maternal health, and human rights.

 Population Day Famous Quotes 

 "By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down." - Bill Gates

 "Our human population continues to expand at such a scary rate – it’s unbelievable." - Bindi Irwin

 "We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the Global Population. The Plant can not support many more people." - Unknown

 "The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man." - Thomas Malthus

 "Population growth and development place additional stress on the Nation's water infrastructure and its ability to sustain hard-won water quality gains." - Jerry Costello

 "Population growth is not respecting water-management district boundaries." - Colleen Castille

 "Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage." - Jacques Yves Cousteau

 "When the family is small, whatever little they have they are able to share. There is peace." - Philip Njuguna

 "Times are gone when we could relax and take it easy. It is time to act and act strongly to control the growth of the population to help our coming generations." - Unknown

 “Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence." - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

 "To save the world, to protect the tomorrow, we have to control the population today." - Unknown

 "Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess." - David Suzuki

 “As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women’s issues, in bringing down the population growth rate… as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension – that of a mother." - Benazir Bhutto

15. “Every state has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made." - Pope Benedict XVI