The Third Asian Population Association Conference
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 26-30 July 2015

The Third Asian Population Association Conference was organized by University of Malaya, taking place from 26 to 30 July 2015 at Berjaya Times Square, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The 2015 APA conference brought together approximately 600 participants from 44 countries throughout Asia and outside Asia to explore and share experiences on a broad range of population issues of relevance to the nations and people of the region. The main eight themes of presentations were:

1. Population Size, Growth, Distribution or Characteristics issues (including children and youth, gender, population ageing)
2. Fertility, Fecundity, Reproductive Health
3. Mortality, Morbidity, Cause of Death,
4. Internal and International Migration, Urbanization
5. Marriage, Family, Kinship, Religion
6. Demographic Theory and Methods
7. Interdisciplinary Studies, Education, Labor, Economics and Development
8. Other; Disability, Environment, Wellbeing and Happiness, etc.

The 3rd APA Conference in numbers:
- 1634 submissions to the first call for abstract
- 2 pre-conference activities:
       - 1 workshop conducted by the scientific committee of the APA
       - 6 special sessions
- 5 Plenary Sessions
- 77 parallel oral sessions
- 271 oral presentations
- 195 posters in a Super hall
- 8 international exhibitors and 7 locals
- 426 international participants
- 150 local participants

All information about the conference is available on the APA Conference website.

                      Circumstance of the conference

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