Population Sector
The European Population Committee, an intergovernmental body of the Council of Europe, functioned for over 30 years providing demographic analysis and data to European policy-makers. The work of the Population Committee was widely acknowledged as playing a valuable part in responding to the growing needs of policy-makers in understanding the relations between demographic changes and social and economic policies.
Following the adoption of the Action Plan adopted by the heads of state and government in Warsaw in May 2005, the Council of Europe found it necessary to terminate its intergovernmental activities in the demographic field as well as in other sectors that do not have a direct link to the core objectives of the institution (human rights, democracy and rule of law).
This portion of the website is maintained in order to make available the many reports and publications on population issues which have been produced in recent years and which continue to be relevant to demographers, policy-makers, researchers and the general public. The latest publications include the background reports and the proceedings of the European Population Conference which took place in Strasbourg from 7-8 April 2005 and the 2005 population series reports.
The 2005 edition of the publication Recent Demographic Developments in Europe is the last edition of this report in its present format. The Secretariat of the Social Policy Directorate is currently working on finding alternative solutions for the production of the ensuing editions of the yearbook.
