About this stamp
On the Stamp
The emblem of World Population Year, in maroon on buff, on a 25 paise stamp.
World Population Year
India Post issued this stamp on 14 August 1974 for World Population Year, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1970 and marked by the World Population Conference at Bucharest in August 1974. India, with 548 million people at the 1971 census, about a seventh of the world, had made family planning national policy as early as 1952. This text draws on India Post’s folder for the issue.
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