The Population Sector takes people as the center of its mission.

On the morning of July 8, in Dien Chau district, the Department of Population and Family Planning organized a ceremony to celebrate World Population Day on July 11. This year, the United Nations Population Fund took the theme "25 years after the International Conference on Population and Development" (ICPD: Accelerating progress to achieve the committed contents.

Comrade Pham Xuan Sanh - Vice Chairman of Dien Chau District People's Committee presented flowers to congratulate on World Population Day. Photo: My Ha

After 25 years, the world has achieved many important achievements such as the rate of women in underdeveloped countries using modern contraceptive methods increased from 15% to 37%, the rate of women dying during pregnancy decreased by half, the average number of children a woman had decreased from 6 children/woman to 4 children/woman.

The Organizing Committee of the Contest presented flowers to three participating teams from Dien Binh and Dien Dong communes and Dien Chau district town. Photo: My Ha.

Celebrating World Population Day is also an occasion for the provincial Population and Family Planning sector to look back at the achievements and the difficulties and challenges that need to be addressed.

On that basis, propose strong, clear and specific solutions and actions in accordance with the spirit set forth by the ICPD Conference to create a world where all people enjoy their rights and are free to make appropriate choices for themselves.

The contest had a large audience participation. Photo: My Ha.

The main task is to exploit and effectively use the golden population structure; build a fair society without prejudice and discrimination; a society that always promotes, respects and protects reproductive health and sexual health care.

To celebrate World Population Day, the Provincial Department of Population and Family Planning also organized the "Elderly Live Happy - Live Healthy" contest for 3 teams from Dien Chau district.

Knowledge and healthy living contest with many questions related to population field. Photo: My Ha

This is also an opportunity for all levels and sectors from district to grassroots to further promote activities to improve population quality, especially finding solutions to adapt to population aging.

Up to this point, Nghe An's population is 3,169 thousand people. The total number of children born in the first 6 months of the year is 23,000 children, down 953 compared to the same period in 2018. The birth rate is 6.96%o, down 0.3%o. The sex ratio at birth is 114 boys/100 girls.