While life expectancy had risen in all regions over the past 50 years -- one major achievement of the last century -- health improvements and medical advances were not reaching huge swaths of the developing world, mandating the global community to work harder to ensure that people did not die of preventable disease, the Commission on Population and Development heard today as it opened its forty-third session under the theme of “Health, morbidity, mortality and development”.

As mortality declined in most countries during the twentieth century, life expectancy has risen in all world regions, the United Nations reports, ahead of an intergovernmental meeting on population and development next week in New York. From 47 years in 1950-1955, global life expectancy increased sharply to 68 years in 2005-2010.

3 April 2009

Economic and Social CouncilPOP/975

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Commission on Population and Development

Forty-second Session

8^th Meeting (PM)

COMMISSION ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT CONCLUDES SESSION BY ADOPTING

GUIDELINE FOR INTERNATIONAL ACTION OVER NEXT FIVE YEARS

 

2 April 2009

Economic and Social CouncilPOP/974

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Commission on Population and Development

Forty-second Session

7^th Meeting (AM)

1 April 2009

Economic and Social CouncilPOP/973

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Commission on Population and Development

Forty-second Session

5^th & 6^th Meetings (AM & PM)

delegates in commission on population and development share national

experiences of reducing mortality, empowering women

 

31 March 2009

Economic and Social CouncilPOP/972

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Commission on Population and Development

Forty-second Session

4^th Meeting (PM)

Delegates debate effects of reduced fertility as commission on population

and development continues forty-second session

 

In Keynote Address, Speaker Stresses Access

30 March 2009

Economic and Social CouncilPOP/971

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Commission on Population and Development

Forty-second Session

2^nd & 3^rd Meetings* (AM & PM)

26 March 2009

Economic and Social CouncilPOP/970

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Background Release

11 April 2008

Economic and Social CouncilPOP/965

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Commission on Population and Development

Forty-first Session

8^th Meeting (PM)

10 April 2008

Economic and Social CouncilPOP/964

Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

Commission on Population and Development

Forty-first Session

7^th Meeting (AM)