- Norplant levonorgestrel implants approved by the US Food and Drug Administration
- In Egypt, Mexico, and Zambia, Population Council researchers examine the effect of sexually transmitted infections on women's reproductive health
- Population Council receives United Nations Population Award
- Council launches Expanding Contraceptive Choice program
- Collaboration begins with the government of Ghana and the Navrongo Health Research Centre
- Margaret Catley-Carlson becomes sixth president
- Population Council's annual budget: $40 million
- Staff of 360
- Sandra Arnold becomes director of the Corporate Affairs Division and a Population Council vice president
- Council office opens in Washington, DC
- International Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo, Egypt
- Vietnam reproductive health fellowship program launched
- USAID funds capacity-building project in Guatemala
- French pharmaceutical company Roussel Uclaf donates to the Council the US rights for mifepristone; Council begins US clinical trials of the drug for early termination of pregnancy
- Mellon Foundation provides $3 million challenge grant for the Council's endowment
- Population Council researchers increase attention to needs of married and unmarried adolescents
- Work in Myanmar begins
- Council collaborates with government of India to reformulate its population policy to emphasize quality of care
- With Rockefeller Foundation funding, the Council establishes the African Population and Health Research Center
- Elof D.B. Johansson becomes director of the Center for Biomedical Research and a Council vice president
- Jadelle, a two-rod levonorgestrel implant, approved by the US Food and Drug Administration
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development funds research on child health in Africa
- Elizabeth J. McCormack becomes chairman of the board
- USAID funds Horizons, a global program of operations research on HIV/AIDS
- Population Council opens office in Vietnam and renews work in Iran
- USAID funds Frontiers in Reproductive Health—a global operations research program—to improve services in Africa, Asia, the Near East, Latin America, and the former Soviet Union; the program consolidates the Population Council's regional operations research projects into a global program
- Council collaborates on first nationally representative survey of adolescents in Egypt
- World population: 6 billion
- Linda G. Martin becomes seventh president
- James M. Tuite becomes treasurer and director of finance, later assumes role of corporate secretary
- Population Council's annual budget: $66.7 million
- Staff of 500
- Council opens office in Johannesburg, South Africa
- Work begins in Cambodia and the West Bank
- Packard Foundation funds capacity-building project in Pakistan
- In the 1990s New Zealand joins Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom in supporting the Council's work
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