• Population issues have started to brew since Bucharest Conference 1974. They resumed profundity in the Mexico City Conference in 1984. The population development rates were the focus of attention. The result was a process that shifted the whole concept of family organization and the reduction in the multitudes to the urgent necessity of integrating the population factors in the development fences. In Cairo Conference 1994 intentions were intensified by concentrating on popularized awareness and improvement of living standards through the perspective of economic development.

• At the national dimension the state has started to spread concern to the population problem since the sixties of the last century. In 1971 the National Population Committee was constituted by voluntary efforts. In 1978 it was affiliated to the Ministry – Higher Education of Scientific Research. The Committee played successful roles through the intensive efforts it circulated among the agencies responsible to integrate the element of population in development plans and progress programmes. A series of population national congress cessions were conducted in 1973, 84, 87 and 1994 to crystallize the impact of the population component in social development.

• In 1990 the national population policy was formulated to be ratified by the Council of Ministers on Sept. 16th 1990. The load of the population issue was disintegrated in three main axes:

1. The disharmony between economic development and progressive multiplication of the population.
2. Retarding population characteristics.
3. Imbalanced distribution of the population.

• In recognition of this magnitude a population strategy was prescribed in the Comprehensive National Strategy (1992-2002), in recognition of the twin status between economic development and the rate of increase in population. The desirable combination shall contribute to promote population public characteristics and retain rates of increase in numbers within those adequate to geographic expansion of the Sudan. A successful plan realizes developmental equilibrium, reinforces national security and regulates domestic and foreign expatriation movements.

• To reflect further intensity of Government concentration on the population sector, the National Council – Population was constituted as a Government agency to shoulder the whole load of population complexities. Their main target was the crystallization of the population policies within the state functions by integrating the constituents thereof in the whole development process.

• The institution of abovementioned Council was an urgent necessity to cope with local and global variables. The old National Committee has turned by time to sole Government apparatus to experiment, and approve and implement inclusive policies.

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