Organisations

This page lists some of the many organisations, websites and charities concerned with population.

Here are some organisations  involved in population.

  • Population Matters This is the main UK charity concerned about the problems associated with over population. The website contains a wealth of information.
  • Quaker Earthcare Witness This is a network of Quakers inspiring Spirit-led action for ecological integrity and environmental justice. They have a working group concerned with population similar to QCOP, for more details see here.
  • Population Matters USA "Working for a sustainable world'" This website is run by Richard Grossman, a retired obstetrician-gynecologist and a Quaker. Richard leads the QEW working group above.
  • The Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs  conducts demographic research, supports intergovernmental processes at the UN in the area of population and development, and assists countries in developing their capacity to produce and analyse population data and information. Here is the 2024 report on World Population Prospects.
  • United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) This is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. Their mission is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled.
  • MSI (Formerly Marie Stopes International) "We’re 9,000 team members working across 36 countries, all united by our support for reproductive choice."
  • Margaret Pyke Trust "We train healthcare professionals in contraception and sexual health. We partner with other environmental and health organisations, to improve sexual and reproductive health services, provide livelihoods and conserve biodiversity."
  • Population Balance`is proud to be the first and only organization globally that uses an anti-oppression lens to draw connections between pronatalism, human supremacy, social inequalities, and ecological overshoot, and offers solutions to address their combined impacts on the planet, people, and animals.'
  • Population Connection`America's voice for population stabilization'
  • The Population Council is a leading research organization dedicated to building an equitable and sustainable world that enhances the health and well-being of current and future generations. It generates ideas, produces evidence, and designs solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world.
  • Population Media Center Works to empower people to live healthier and more prosperous lives and to stabilize global population at a level at which people can live sustainably with the world’s renewable resources.
  • The People-Planet Connection is a resource space for those interested in the connection between population, health and the environment (PHE), see also here.
  • Here is a Wikipedia list of organisations concerned with population worldwide.

Here are some websites to explore.

  • The overpopulation project This studies the environmental impacts of overpopulation in an effort to remind environmentalists, scientists and policy makers of the contributions ending population growth can make in dealing successfully with global environmental problems.
  • Project Drawdown "The world’s leading resource for climate solutions."
  • Earth Overshoot Day Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year. In 2024, Earth Overshoot Day landed on August 1st. 
  • Population Pyramids A population pyramid is a clever way of visualising the structure of a population, showing males, females and the different age groups. On this website you can explore the remarkably different populations of different countries.
  • Global Footprint Network This  international nonprofit organization envisions a future where all can thrive within the means of our one planet. Their vision is to help end ecological overshoot by making ecological limits central to decision-making. Their website includes much data and tools to calculate your personal footprint calculator.
  • Footprint calculator  A tool to calculate your personal ecological footprint and overshoot day.

Here are some charities concerned with healthcare and family planning

  • CHASE Africa works to improve access to healthcare and remove barriers to family planning for remote rural communities in East Africa. CHASE Africa is QCOPs chosen charity to which we make occasional donations.
  • Dandelion Africa works with communities and the government on practical and systematic change so that communities in rural Kenya have access to quality healthcare. They have a medical facility, backpack nurses who go door-to-door and a network of over 100 unpaid community health volunteers. They engage boys and men so they are agents of change and champion women’s health and livelihoods.
  • Camfed is a pan-African, grassroots-led movement tackling poverty, inequality and injustice through girls’ education and women’s leadership. 
  • The Population Awareness Initiative is an indigenous Nigerian non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness about the exponential rate at which our population is growing and advocating for non-coercive population control through family planning and socio-cultural reengineering.