Online, 5-10 December 2021
Links
- IPC2021 Conference website
- IPC Programme website
- PDF programme
- IPC2021 Report
- IPC2021 Survey Results
The XXIX International Population Conference (IPC 2021) was the first fully virtual international population conference ever organised by the IUSSP. It was initially planned to be held as an in-person conference in Hyderabad, India, 5-10 December 2021 at the Hyderabad International Conference Centre. Due to the COVID pandemic, the International and National Organising Committees decided that it would not be possible to convene the conference in Hyderabad as planned and converted the conference to an entirely virtual event taking place on the same dates. Approximately 1,288 population scientists, students and policy makers from 90 countries registered for the conference and 1,221 individuals participated in the live sessions which were held around the clock over 20 hours per day to accommodate participants from around the globe.
The IUSSP is very grateful to the India National Organising Committee (NOC) and other Indian colleagues for their continued involvement in IPC2021 and their efforts to organise the India-Day sessions even though in the end it was not possible to host the Conference in Hyderabad.The IUSSP is also grateful to its donors, without whom this conference could not have taken place. And finally, the IUSSP thanks all those who reviewed and selected papers before the conference and all those who participated in the conference.
Conference figures:
- 1,650 submissions to the Call for Papers
- 1,305 papers accepted on the programme
- 792 papers accepted for presentation in 176 regular sessions
- 30 invited and special sessions created by the IOC
- 513 papers accepted to present as posters and approximately 300 presented in Poster sessions
- 1,307 participants joining from 82 countries and representing 94 nationalities
- 6 pre-conference events: webinars, training workshops and mentoring activities
- 24 exhibitors
Additional information can be found in theconference reportandtheevaluation reportbased on the post-conference survey of conference participants.
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Selected recorded sessions:
- Inaugural Keynote: Dr Soumya Swaminathan, WHO Chief Scientist on Perspectives from the COVID-19 Pandemic and Lessons Learned(22)
- UNFPA Special Session: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Fertility(152)
- Closing and Award Ceremony (207 - includes IUSSP Mattei Dogan Award* and Best Poster Awards)
- *2021 IUSSP-Mattei Dogan Foundation Award lecture by Bruno Schoumaker on Male Fertility around the world and over time.
- Keynote: Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Adolescents in LMIC(24)
- Keynote:Six Ways Population Change Will Affect Global Economy(90)
- Keynote:Twentieth Century Famines and Food Availability in South Asia(108)
- Keynote: Demography Fast & Slow(167)
- Keynote: Human Capital and Sustainable Human Wellbeing(192)
Invited sessions:
- Population Change and Identity Politics(23)
- Early Impacts of COVID-19 on Contraceptive and Abortion Services in LMICs(27)
- Setting a Research Agenda for Political Demography(36)
- Low Fertility: Trends, Policies and Politics(58)
- Joint Population Associations Session: COVID-19 and Early Academic Career in Population Studies. Perspectives from around the Globe(70)
- Demographic Training for the 21st Century(151)
Sessions organized by IUSSP Scientific Panels:
- The Implications of Global Pandemics for International Migration and Migration Research(IUSSP Panel on International Migration - 69)
- Round Table:Is Rising Inequality Acceptable If It Coincides with Poverty Reduction?(IUSSP Panel on Population, Poverty and Inequality -82)
- Round Table: Digital Demography: Highlights and Future Directions(IUSSP Panel on Digital Demography - 126)
- Family and Inequality in Asia(IUSSP Panel onFamily Behaviour in East Asia and Southern Europe -134)
- New Evidence on Urban Fertility and Family Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia(IUSSP Panel on Urban Family Planning -163)
- Launch of Genus Thematic Series on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems(IUSSP Panel on Population Perspectives and Demographic Methods to Strengthen Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems -164)
- Emerging Ethics and Human Rights Issues in the Digitization of Population Register Systems(IUSSP Panel on Population Perspectives and Demographic Methods to Strengthen Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Systems- 165)
- Contraceptive Transition Theories (IUSSP Panel on Contraceptive Transition Theories: Models for contemporary patterns of use-205)
- Training Session:Tools for Working with, Estimating and Visualising Migration Data inR(IUSSP Panel on International Migration-206)
Research Leader sessions:
- Youth Mixed Migration in Gateway Cities(Sponsored by UNFPA - 67)
- New Resources: Population Data Platforms(Sponsored by UNFPA - 81)
- Quantifying Uncertain Migration Scenarios (Sponsored by the QuantMig Project / University of Southampton - 111)
- Modern Approaches to Vital Statistics Production, Dissemination and Usage: Harnessing Civil Registration Data to Advance Population Health and Gender Equality (Sponsored by UNFPA - 112)
- Methodological Enquiry in Measurement of Traditional Methods of Contraception in Modern Times(Sponsored by AFIDEP - 123)
- Addressing the Needs of Marginalized Populations Impacted by Climate Change: Evidence Gaps at the Intersection of the Population and Climate Sciences (Sponsored by the Population Council - 124)
- INED's Mortality and Health Databases: Valuable Resources for International Comparisons (Sponsored by INED - 125)
India Day Research Leader sessions:
- Family Planning in India during FP2020: Progress and Lessons for FP2030(Sponsored by the Population Council - 11)
- Ageing in India: Emerging Issues and Challenges Based on LASI(Sponsored by the International Institute for Population Sciences -IIPS - 56)
- National and Subnational Investigation of the Drivers of Success in Maternal and New Born Mortality Reduction in India; Exemplars in Global Health (Sponsored by India Health Action Trust - 68)
- Reaping the Benefit of the Demographic Dividend in India: Challenges, Opportunities and Policy Options(Sponsored by UNFPA - 96)
- Good Practices, Innovative Approaches and Challenges in Streamlining and Leveraging Interventions to Respond to the Corona Virus (Sponsored by Learning for Impact USAID Project - 109)
- Building Trust in India’s Data Ecosystem: A Model of Change (Sponsored by the Population Council - 153)
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Best Poster Awards:
- Day 1. Poster Session 3, C-23: “Vulnerability Level of Spatial Units and Adolescent Fertility in Colombia” by Juliana Guerrero, Carlos Ramirez Hernandez, José L Wilches-Gutierrez, and Lelio A Arias-Vizcaino
- Day 2. Poster Session 8, C-51: “Do income inequality and women empowerment predict obesity in Latin American cities?” by Natalia Tumas, Cecilia Anza Ramírez, Mariana Carvalho de Menezes, Mónica Mazariegos, Kari Moore, Ana Ortigoza, Carolina Pérez Ferrer, Santiago Rodríguez López, Olga Sarmiento, Joan Benach and Mariana Lazo
- Day 3. Poster Session 11, B-132: “Trends in chronic child undernutrition in Bangladesh for small domains using Bayesian hierarchical time series modelling” by Sumonkanti Das, Bernard Baffour and Alice Richardson
- Day 4. Poster Session 16, C-78: “Age gap between spouses in South and Southeast Asia” by Premchand Dommaraju.
- Day 5. Poster Session 23, C-68: “Does urban land expansion affect the village’s development? A geospatial study of 615 peri-urban villages of Gujarat, India” by Ankit Sikarwar, Aparajita Chattopadhyay, and Ritu Rani.
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IPC2021 Countdown Events:
The IPC2021 conference was preceded by a series of preconference '"countdown events":
Training Workshop:Geoprocessing and Spatial Analysis
- Instructor: Igor Cavallini Johansen
Training Workshop: Introduction to Multistate Analysis of Population Dynamics
- Organizer: Kim Xu
- Instructor: Dr. James O'Donnel
Virtual short course:Subnational Probabilistic Population Projections
- Sponsored by IUSSP, University of Washington, UNFPA and NICHD.
- Course Instructors: Adrian Raftery and Hana Ševčíková
Webinar:Climate change and population dynamics
- Organizers: Susana B. Adamo, Raya Muttarak, Alex de Sherbinin
- Panelists:Kathryn Grace, Clark Gray, Joan Ballester, Wolfgang Lutz, Landy Sánchez
Debate: If the wife says that she wants no more births, but the husband does want another birth, can one necessarily say that her subsequent pregnancy is unwanted?
- Debaters:Sunday Adedini, Suzana Cavenaghi, Francis Dodoo anf K.G. Santhya
- Introduction Stan Becker
- Moderator:Ambrose Akinlo
- Synthesis and closing remarks: Neetu John
Networking event:Your career after a PhD?(3 sessions: Asia & Pacific; Europe & Africa; Americas)
- Organizers:Jenny Garcia, Pavel Grigoriev and Adrien Remund
- Presenters:Aparajita Chattopadhyay, Collin Payne, Nandita Saikia, Shalini Verma, Ridhi Kashyap, Adam Lenart, Felix zur Nieden, Abdoul-Moumouni Nouhou, Stephen Ojiambo Wandera, Arlette Simo Fotso, Sergey Timonin, Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, Helena Castanheira, Jamaica Corker, Elizabeth Flores, Mathias Nathan, Thomas Spoorenberg.
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The IUSSP thanks the following institutions for their support to make IPC2021 a success:
- UNFPA
- India Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India
- India Association for the Study of Population (IASP)
- International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)
- African Institute for Development Policy (AFIDEP)
- CEDEPLAR, Federal University of Minas Gerais
- India Health Action Trust (IHAT)
- Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques (INED)
- IPUMS
- Learning4impact, Swasti
- Population Council
- Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM)
- Université de Montréal
- USAID-India
A special thanks to UNFPA for providing support to IUSSP for the virtual Conference platform.
