"The historic United Nations conferences and summits held in the 1990s and 2000s generated an unprecedented global consensus on a shared vision of development. That broad-based framework in turn laid the groundwork for the Millennium Summit, at which a series of challenging time-bound goals and...

"Provides a statistical summary of the responses of Governments to population growth, size and age structure; health and mortality; fertility, reproductive health and the family; population distribution and internal migration; and national population policies and the implementation of the...