Work programme in the field of population.

Requests the Secretary-General to formulate the medium-term plan for the period 1990-1995; also requests the Secretary-General: (a) to continue vigorously the monitoring of world population trends and policies and to prepare the review and appraisal of the World Population Plan of Action; (b) to continue the work programmes on the following: socio-economic development and population, interrelationships between the status and role of women and population, population policies, analytical studies with respect to demographic target-setting, estimates and projections of population, mortality analysis, fertility and family planning, urbanization and internal and international migration, consequences of changes in population and household structure, development of the Population Information Network (POPIN); further requests the Secretary-General to continue and to strengthen interdisciplinary technical co-operation activities in the following areas: training in demography and population-and-development matters, evaluation and analysis of basic population data, formulation of population policy and its integration in development planning.

Adopted without vote, 35th meeting

Adopted at the 35th plenary meeting, 8 July 1987.