Source: 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 AGE OF MOTHER Prepared for the Office of Population, Agency for International Development, by the International Statistical Programs Center, WORLD POPULATION YEAR AND CONFERENCE Mr. DRAPER. Let me add one thing, Mr. Chairman, as an encouraging note and a reason for us to continue expanding the size of our program: that is the fact that the United Nations have proclaimed 1974 as World Population Year and will hold in August 1974 a world population conference. The purpose of this World Population Year is through all the members of the United Nations, which is practically universal now, to spotlight the world's attention on this serious economic and social problem that also threatens the peace of the world. These millions of people are continuing to multiply in so many places where frustration, poverty, and beginnings of starvation prevail, as they now do in parts of Africa and Asia, that world peace can be seriously threatened. The World Population Year will be highlighted by the World Population Conference at which the member nations of the United Nations will bring various programs to the attention of all countries. It is hoped that a world population plan of action will be agreed upon at that conference and that from that will start a real plan that hopefully government after government will accept. It will be designed for and hopefully will lead to a solution of the problem before it is too late. I have before me here to leave with the committee-and this will answer many of the detailed questions-the book that the AID program has published on 1972 programs. It has just been published about 2 weeks ago. It gives the story on every country in the world. Also I have the report which the United Nations has prepared on the 3 years they have been in existence which tells about their multilateral approach to the problem. These are available, in however many copies the committee desires. The CHAIRMAN. That is very useful and I appreciate that very much. Thank you very much. I am sorry my colleagues can't be here, but they can't. They have other business. We have bills on the floor and we have other hearings going on, you know. Mr. DRAPER. I do want to express my appreciation to this committee and to you personally because if the impetus that the Congress has given to this continues, I am hopeful that the problem can be solved. Without our help and without the help of the developed countries of the world for the developing countries I would be very pessimistic. Thank you. The CHAIRMAN. Thank you very much. Our next witness is Mr. Timothy W. Stanley, International Economic Policy Association. We are very happy to have you. Could you put your statement in the record and summarize it for us, please, sir? STATEMENT OF DR. TIMOTHY W. STANLEY, EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC POLICY ASSOCIATION Mr. STANLEY. All right, I will be happy to do so. The International Economic Policy Association is a nonprofit research group based here in Washington concerned with public policy issues, in the international economic field. Over a 15-year period it has consistently supported the foreign aid programs before this and other committees, but it has suggested a number of improvements in |