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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.

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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

March Magazine Out Now

Our members and subscribers have been requesting for several months that we dedicate an issue of Population Connection magazine to the role of religion in people’s family planning and childbearing decisions. This edition features an article by Kirsten Stade that explores the nuanced relationship religious followers have (at the population level) with their respective religions’ texts and leaders when it comes to official pronouncements on birth control and family formation.

“Many of the most religious populations in the world, who follow traditions marked by deeply pronatalist teachings, have fertility rates that are well below replacement and continuing to drop. These tend to be populations where despite strong religious affiliation, there is also a high degree of gender equality as well as education and career opportunity for women.”

Kirsten Stade

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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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Experts: Low fertility may be good for the economy

While governments around the world are fretting over declining birthrates, experts are increasingly arguing that this fear is unwarranted and that low fertility may in fact bring economic benefits. Demographers…

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Re: Birthrates Are Down. That Can Be a Sign of Progress

The New York Times Headway newsletter pointed out that low birthrates have upsides too. We sent a letter in response, which wasn’t published, so we are featuring it here. We…

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Population Connection is a membership-based organization, funded by over 30,000 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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2025 accomplishments

8,000+
Activists

Capitol Building

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

11,000+
Educators

Kids pointing at map

Population Education hosted workshops for more than 11,000 K-12 educators throughout the U.S. and Canada, providing them with the materials and resources they need to teach PopEd in their classrooms.

900+
Supporters

Membership Relations engaged with our supporter base through 14 virtual events, including book club discussions and webinars featuring our Global Partners, guest speakers, and Population Connection staff.