Call for Papers: IUSSP International Population Conference 2025

About the Conference

The IUSSP International Population Conference is the world’s largest international scientific conference on population issues. First organised in 1927 and held every four years since 1959, the conference brings together over 2,000 scientists, policymakers and practitioners from around the globe to present and discuss the latest research on contemporary population and development issues.

At the invitation of the Australian Population Association, the 30th International Population Conference (IPC2025) will take place in Brisbane, Australia at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre (BCEC) from 13 to 18 July 2025. IPC 2025 will be an in-person conference.

The Conference will include over 800 oral presentations and up to 1,000 posters selected from research submitted to the Call for Papers. There will also be plenary sessions, debates and invited panel discussions featuring leading experts in the field, as well as training workshops, exhibits and side meetings occurring both before and during the Conference.

The Conference is open to all members of the population community and those interested in population matters working in research, teaching, governmental and non-governmental organisations, as well as the private sector including publishing companies and the media.

Institutions working in the population field are encouraged to organise exhibits, side meetings, training workshops, or sponsored research leader sessions.

All researchers and population specialists are warmly invited to submit paper or poster proposals and to plan on attending this event. Presentations in oral and poster sessions will be selected through a peer-review submission process.

Scientific Programme

The scientific programme of the Conference will be created from abstracts submitted to the Call for Papers by the submission deadline of 15 September 2024. All abstracts must be submitted online via the IPC2025 website, which is scheduled to open for submissions on 1 May 2024. Always check the IPC2025 Conference website https://ipc2025.iussp.org/ for updates.

Authors can submit to one of the 24 conference themes or one of the 72 member-organized session topics listed below. All submissions will be reviewed by 2 anonymous experts on the topic area. Theme Conveners and Session Organisers will select abstracts for inclusion in the programme based on reviews and relevance and appropriateness of the communication for the session.

IPC 2025 will be an in-person conference. Authors whose papers are accepted on the programme will be expected to register for and attend the conference in Brisbane, Australia 13-18 July 2025.

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Further instructions on how to submit papers and themes of the conferences are found here.