1960  

  • World population: 3 billion 
  • Population Council's annual budget: $1.7 million
  • Council posts first resident advisor in Pakistan 

1961  

  • Population Council provides support to initiate the Taichung family planning experiment in Taiwan
The Lippes Loop
The Lippes Loop

1962  

  • Population Council holds first international conference on intrauterine devices (IUDs) and facilitates granting of royalty-free licenses for manufacture of the Lippes Loop IUD for use in public programs worldwide 
  • Council responds to request for advice from the government of South Korea

1963  

  • First issue of Studies in Family Planning published 
  • Governments of Tunisia and Turkey request advice on establishing family planning programs 
  • Population Council helps establish the United Nations regional center for demographic training and research in Cairo, Egypt 
  • Council funds University of Chicago family planning research in Chicago slums and poor rural areas in the US South

1964  

  • With support from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Technical Assistance Division (later International Programs Division) is established; Richmond K. Anderson first director
  • Work begins in Puerto Rico

1965  

  • Population Council and Ford Foundation co-sponsor the First International Conference on Family Planning Programs in Geneva 
  • Council begins work with governments of Honduras, Iran, Kenya, Morocco, and the Philippines

1966  

  • Statement on Population, drafted and circulated by John D. Rockefeller 3rd, signed by 30 world leaders
  • Biomedical Division refines design of IUDs and begins work on subdermal implants, leading to Norplant® 
  • Demographic Division (later Policy Research Division), with funding from the US Agency for International Development (USAID), initiates major effort to measure and evaluate family planning programs 
  • International Postpartum Project, involving 138 institutions in 21 countries, is launched by the Population Council
  • Council begins support of Better Family Planning, a Philadelphia-based organization established by black religious leaders and lawyers
A scene from the Disney movie, Family Planning.
A scene from the Disney movie, Family Planning.

1967  

  • W. Parker Mauldin becomes director of the Demographic Division and subsequently a Population Council vice president
  • Work begins in Barbados and Uganda 
  • Council supports a 10-minute Walt Disney cartoon, Family Planning, which is ultimately translated into 25 other languages

1968  

  • Bernard Berelson becomes fourth president 
  • Population Council sponsors first international scientific conference on contraceptive implants 
  • Work begins in Colombia and Sierra Leone 
  • Council's annual budget: $10 million 
  • Staff of nearly 90 

1969  

  • David Sills becomes director of the Demographic Division 
  • US Office of Economic Opportunity gives Population Council $2 million to support family planning for poor women through 14 US medical schools 
  • Council staff members assist faculty and students in universities in Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zaire