Press Releases

September 15, 2025 | Press Releases

Population Connection supports a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, signed by 80 organizations, including sister organization Population Connection Action Fund, calling on the Trump administration to end their cruel plan to incinerate $10 million worth of contraceptives destined for women in developing countries. Read the press release and…...

July 7, 2025 | Press Releases

For immediate release Survey: Up to 40% of Americans don’t know that our population is growing A new survey to mark World Population Day1 (July 11) sheds light on how the new media obsession over declining fertility in the Global North seems to be shaping public knowledge and perception of…...

February 12, 2025 | Press Releases

For immediate release US fertility desires and outcomes: new mixed-mode research An extensive new survey by non-profit organization Population Connection and Lake Research Partners sheds light on declining birth rates, revealing that Americans have an established preference for small family sizes, and that concerns around the state of the world…...

January 17, 2025 | Press Releases

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November 6, 2024 | Press Releases

Make no mistake, the election results are a huge setback for women’s reproductive health and for efforts to address overpopulation. In the immediate aftermath of any victory or defeat, it’s all too easy to fall prey to exuberance or despair. Elections are snapshots. In this instance, they reflect the dismaying…...

July 11, 2024 | Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New world population projections released today by the United Nations Population Division reveal that the widespread narrative about declining birth rates precipitating a global “population collapse” is very far from reality. According to the new UN projections, the world’s population is expected to keep growing for another…...

March 21, 2024 | Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New fertility projections by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) published in The Lancet are being portrayed by some outlets as a shocking impending crash in the number of births worldwide. The study shows no such thing, however. Using sophisticated models, the authors projected that…...

February 6, 2024 | Press Releases

Population Connection has always believed that the United States needs a well-regulated immigration system, consistent with basic human and civil rights. That’s why we support the just-released bipartisan Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act slated for Senate consideration later this week. Key provisions include: Termination of parole under which migrants…...

July 6, 2023 | Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Next Tuesday, July 11, is World Population Day, a United Nations observance day established in 1989 to raise awareness of the urgency and importance of population issues. It’s not a well-known day, but it should be. Misinformation about demographic trends abounds thanks to increasingly common “baby bust”…...

March 28, 2023 | Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A provocative new report argues that it is unequal resource distribution, rather than overpopulation, that is driving our environmental crises, but this claim is misleading, as demonstrated by the report’s own data. The new report was produced by Earth4All, a collaborative initiative by prominent think-tanks The Club…...