The UN and the Demographic Challenge

The problems posed by the population explosion have not fallen without the UN’s range of concerns as, from its inception, the UN created institutions to analyze the growth of population, its territorial distribution, and the links which such phenomena bear with economic and social development. This essay describes and analyzes the activities of the ECOSOC's population division, and, particularly, those of the United Nations Fund for Activities on Population, granting a special emphasis to Mexico's contribution in those areas where· it is competent. Also, it proposes the creation of a United Nations Development Fund, to integrate the UN's activities on interrelated topics such as the environment, population, the participation of women, sustainable development, etcetera.