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Countries Will Commemorate Tenth Anniversary of the Adoption of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development

17 October 2023 | Announcement

Representatives of government, international institutions, the private sector, academia and civil society will gather on November 14-15 at the main headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development, the most important intergovernmental agreement in this area for the region, and its instrument for follow-up to the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development beyond 2014”. The special session “10 y…

Latin America and the Caribbean is One of the Regions Most Affected Demographically by the Health Crisis

17 November 2022 | News

Latin America and the Caribbean is one of the regions that was most affected demographically by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Demographic Observatory 2022 of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), an annual publication by the organization which, in this new edition, stresses the urgency of strengthening national statistical systems and calculating good quality population estimates and projections for public policy assessments and planning. The Demographic Observatory 2022: Demographic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic presents population estimates and pro…

The World Has 8 Billion People, 662 Million of Whom Live in Latin America and the Caribbean

14 November 2022 | News

Today the global population reaches 8 billion people, which is four times greater than what the world had in 1927. The 2022 revision of United Nations population estimates and projections shows that the population will reach 9 billion in 15 years and 10 billion by 2058. This population increase will be concentrated primarily in the lowest-income countries, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa. The growth in the global population in the last 100 years is the result of two important trends: the increase in life expectancy at birth due to improvements in public health, nutrition, personal hygiene and med…

Latin America and the Caribbean Lost Nearly 3 Years of Life Expectancy at Birth between 2019 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic

27 July 2022 | News

Latin America and the Caribbean lost 2.9 years of life expectancy at birth between 2019 and 2021 due to COVID-19, going from 75.1 years in 2019 to 72.1 years in 2021, which means this region of the world lost more years in terms of life expectancy due to the pandemic than any other, according to an analysis of recent population trends in the region carried out by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The organization indicates that the decline between 2019 and 2021 was greatest in Central America, with a loss of 3.6 years, although the figures point to an acceler…

Authorities Will Analyze the Pandemic’s Sociodemographic Impacts in the Region and Challenges for Implementing the Montevideo Consensus

20 June 2022 | Announcement

Senior representatives of government, international institutions, the private sector, academia and civil society will gather to analyze the sociodemographic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the region and the challenges posed by the health and social crisis for implementing the Montevideo Consensus, during the Fourth Session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development, which will take place on June 28-30 at the central headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The meeting will be inaugurated on Tuesday, June 28 at 2:…

Profound Changes in Demographic Dynamics Will Have Consequences for Public Policies, ECLAC Warns

18 March 2019 | News

The demographic dynamics in the majority of Latin American and Caribbean countries have experienced profound changes that have affected the population’s growth, age structure and territorial distribution and that could have consequences for designing and implementing public policies, according to the First Regional Report on the Implementation of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development. The document, produced by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) under mandate from the member countries of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in L…

Countries of the Region Will Evaluate Progress and Challenges to Implementing Measures on Population and Development

14 September 2017 | Announcement

Representatives of countries in the region will evaluate progress on and challenges to the implementation of the Montevideo Consensus as well as its synergy and complementarity with the 2030 Agenda at the Special Meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development, which will be held November 7-9 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in Santiago, Chile. The meeting will be inaugurated by Raúl García-Buchaca, ECLAC’s Deputy Executive Secretary for Management and Programme Analysis; Patricia Chemor, Secre…

Countries of the Region Meeting at ECLAC See Synergies between the Montevideo Consensus and the 2030 Agenda

6 October 2016 | News

Representatives of 17 countries of the region meeting at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) adopted today a proposed format for national reports on progress in the implementation of the Montevideo Consensus on Population and Development and acknowledged the synergies between this intergovernmental agreement of 2013 and the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development. This is the tenor of the agreements of the third meeting of the Presiding Officers of the Regional Conference on Population and Development (CRPD), held on 4-6 October in Santiago. …

Latin America Population Will Reach 625 Million Inhabitants by 2016, According to ECLAC Estimates

2 February 2016 | News

By mid-2016, the number of inhabitants in Latin America will rise to 625 million, more than six million above the estimated total population in mid-2015, according to the latest population projections made by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). This figure represents almost twice the population registered in 1975, when there were 316 million inhabitants, according to the most recent publication by the Demographic Observatory. Latin America population continued growing up to 512 million inhabitants in 2000 and it is estimated that it will rise to 680 million in …

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