What is another word for depopulation?

Pronunciation: [diːpˌɒpjʊlˈe͡ɪʃən] (IPA)

Depopulation refers to the decline in the population of a particular place or region. Synonyms for the word depopulation include population decline, demographic decline, population decrease, population drop, population reduction, and population shrinkage. These synonyms are often used interchangeably and are commonly associated with various factors that contribute to population decline, such as migration, aging population, and low birth rates. Other terms that are sometimes used as synonyms for depopulation include depopulization, population loss, population drain, population depletion, demographic contraction, and population dilution. Regardless of the term used, depopulation is a significant issue that can have far-reaching social, economic, and environmental consequences.

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Usage examples for Depopulation

He ridiculed loudly those writers who pretended that we should have no difficulty in beating them, and filled their papers with dismal stories about the poverty and depopulation of the country.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
I may state that one strong reason why we took the lease at first was, that we believed it was depopulation and sheep farming that was meant, by what we saw taking place in other places; and we also were under the impression that the small tenants could not exist without the scattalds, or if they should have them to pay for; and while, of course, I do not say there was not some selfish design, because we expected to make a living, we also hoped to see them make a living, and we were to try to improve them if we could.
"Second Shetland Truck System Report"
William Guthrie
The 'improvements' which have been begun with the view of effecting this separation on the Garth and Annsbrae estates, have given rise to much of the indignation which the introduction the of sheep farming and depopulation has been wont to excite in similar cases.
"Second Shetland Truck System Report"
William Guthrie

Famous quotes with Depopulation

  • We are obligated to depopulate as part of our mission of preserving the German population. We shall have to develop a technique of depopulation. If you ask me what I mean by depopulation, I mean the removal of entire racial units. And that is what I intend to carry out…Nature is cruel, therefore we, too, may be cruel…. I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin!
    Hermann Rauschning
  • For it is this cultural revolution that has led to just such a "profound modification in the ideas" of peoples. And those ideas have made Western elites apparently indifferent to the death of their civilization. They do not seem to care if the end of the West comes by depopulation, by a surrender of nationhood, or by drowning in waves of Third World immigration.
    Pat Buchanan

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