World Population Day 2020: Stalled progress, Covid-19 and the road to SDG

In 1989, the United Nations decided to observe July 11 as World Population Day every year in the wake of the world population reaching five billion. The purpose was to bring attention to the "health, development and environmental impacts of rapid population growth".  The world population has now risen to 7.8 billion, and in my own lifetime, it has more than trebled.