Different Pathways to Low Fertility in Asia: Consequences and Policy Implications

The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat organized an Expert Group Meeting on “Fertility, Changing Population Trends and Development: Challenges and Opportunities for the Future” at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 21 and 22 October 2013. The meeting was convened to inform substantive preparations for the forty-seventh session of the Commission on Population an Development in April 2014. In light of the twentieth anniversary of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), the Commission’s theme for 2014 is an “Assessment of the status of implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development”.