International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP)

Contains correspondence and papers relating to the subscription of IUSSP to Population Studies.

1981-2000

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The International Union for Scientific Investigation of Population Problems (IUSIPP), also known as the International Population Union, was founded at a meeting in Paris in Jul 1928 as a result of the first World Population Conference held in Geneva in 1927. The conference was organised by Margaret Sanger. As a result it was decided that a permanent international organistaion should be set up. The IUSIPP was a strictly scientific body and was made up of a number of national committees, including the British Population Society, rather than individual members.

The Second World War led to an interruption of the Union's activities and following the War it was decided that the Union should be reorganised. In 1947 at an Assembly held in Washington the Union was re-constituted as the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). A notable change was the decision to become an organisation consisting of individual members rather than national committees.

Today (2011) the IUSSP is an international non-profit association with the aim of drawing attention to population problems and to promote demography as a science.