The growth of new digital technologies calls for urgent attention to data governance, and expanded national, regional and global investments to prepare the next generation of population data scientists to meet the information and data protection needs of the future. [...] 1 | Introduction “Valid, reliable, timely, culturally relevant and internationally comparable data form the basis for policy and programme development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.” The opening statement of Chapter XII of the ICPD Programme of Action stressed the fundamental requirement of population and development data for government planning and the need for targeted investment in. [...] These megatrends demand new data and population knowledge on human and environmental interactions, new forms and patterns of mobility, changing social and gender norms and choices THE FUTURE OF POPULATION DATA | 5 around reproduction and family formation, the determinants of healthy ageing over the life course, and the impact of technology on the well-being and bodily autonomy of people, among man. [...] As the world reaches the 30-year anniversary of the ICPD and the 2020 round of population and housing censuses draws to a close, this think piece takes stock of the progress and extant gaps in population and development data since 1994. [...] The growth of new digital technologies calls for urgent attention to data governance and expanded national, regional and global investments to prepare the next generation of population data scientists to meet the information and data protection needs of the future.
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