[5] In its early years, the PAA was a coalition of population scientists, birth control activists, immigration restrictionists, and eugenicists.

[6] The Population Association of America was conceived on December 15, 1930 at a meeting in the office of Henry Pratt Fairchild at New York University.

It was an offshoot of the American National Committee of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) which had been formed in 1927 with Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins University as its first President.

The PAA holds an annual meeting every March/April where people present research and data on population trends.

[8] Since then, conferences have been held in numerous locations across the United States ranging from Dallas and Miami to Minneapolis, and also in some cities in Canada such as Montreal and Toronto.