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America's voice for population stabilization

Overpopulation threatens the quality of life for people everywhere. Population Connection is the national grassroots population organization that educates young people and advocates progressive action to stabilize world population at a level that can be sustained by Earth’s resources.

Our goals and programs

2025 Year at a Glance

Thank you to our amazing network of supporters! With your help, we’ve educated more young people about global population growth, rallied advocates to protect family planning programs, and worked to include population in conversations on sustainable development.

Together with our sister organization, Population Connection Action Fund, we advocate for accessible reproductive health care and modern contraception for everyone. Ensuring people can make their own informed reproductive decisions benefits everyone, including our beleaguered planet and the other species it hosts.

Explore Our 2025 Accomplishments

December Magazine Out Now

Population Education (PopEd) Is 50 This Year!

Educating young people about the impact of our numbers and consumption patterns helps them become more thoughtful future professionals, parents (if they choose to have children), consumers, and voters. Despite the importance of population literacy, however, our Population Education program is the only remaining one of its kind in the United States. With a staff of 13, a volunteer network of nearly 700 teacher trainers, and approximately 50,000 educators using our curriculum materials in their classrooms, we reach about 3 million K–12 students each year.

Take a look at the online version or download the PDF of the print version. Either way, we hope you enjoy the read!

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You are the only people doing the work that really counts. As a lifelong environmentalist, writer, and former national media director for Greenpeace, my big gripe was that no one was paying attention to the critical issue of our time: overpopulation. Neville Williams

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Major UN report highlights overpopulation and overconsumption, need for profound transformation

A major new review of the state of the environment by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) provides a comprehensive and refreshingly honest exploration of the root drivers of environmental…

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Re: Europe is panicking over its shrinking population 

The Washington Post ran an alarmist article about depopulation. We replied with a letter to the editor, which wasn’t published, so we are featuring it here. We encourage all our…

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Support us

Population Connection is a membership-based organization, funded by 40,000 progressive, far-sighted individuals. Join us!

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Attend an event

We keep our members and supporters engaged through various virtual events. Come to our next one and meet like-minded folks who support population stabilization!

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Advocate for ZPG

Help us spread the message that zero population growth is necessary for a sustainable future. Write to your local newspaper or simply talk to friends and family about your passion for population stabilization.

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2024 accomplishments

8,000+
Activists

Capitol Building

Population Connection Action Fund mobilized thousands of activists through petitions, volunteer meetings, partner-led events, and #Fight4HER summits.

10,000+
Educators

Kids pointing at map

Population Education hosted workshops for more than 10,000 K-12 educators throughout the U.S. and Canada, providing them with the materials and resources they need to teach PopEd in their classrooms.

800+
Supporters

Membership Relations engaged with our supporter base through 15 virtual events this year, including book club discussions and webinars featuring our Global Partners, guest speakers, and Population Connection staff.