On World Population Day, the World Faces an Underpopulation Crisis

On July 11, the United Nations will observe World Population Day. The annual event comes wrapped in the language of health, rights, development, and human dignity. But its history tells a darker story.The United Nations established World Population Day in 1989 after the publicity surrounding the “Day of Five Billion,” observed on July 11, 1987. The stated purpose was to draw attention to the “urgency and importance” of population issues.But the population establishment had already spent decades