World Population Day

July 11 is World Population Day, an annual event aimed at raising public awareness of the problems of the world's population. These include family planning, gender equality, poverty alleviation, maternal and child health, human rights, and other equally important issues that are addressed by the global Sustainable Development Goals.

World Population Day was established by the United Nations in 1989 to commemorate July 11, 1987, the Day of Five Billion. It is believed that it was the day when the world's population reached 5 billion people. Since then, the number of people on Earth has exceeded 8 billion. Accordingly, population problems have become even more acute and urgent.

Representatives of Karazin University have always made considerable efforts to study and solve various demographic aspects. Thus, Vasyl Karazin, the founder of the University, was the first in national science to raise and partially solve the problem of studying the natural population growth in different social groups. In particular, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, he proved on the basis of materials from Sloboda Ukraine that the mortality rate of serfs was the highest among all other social classes.

Nowadays, specialists from a number of Karazin University's faculties and educational and research institutes are working on the main problems related to the level and quality of life of the population. This shows that higher education, which can be obtained in one of the oldest universities in Eastern Europe, provides the keys to solving the global problems of our time.