Population reduction

The term population reduction may refer to:

  • Population decline or depopulation, reductions in human population levels for reasons such as low birth rate, emigration, disease or war
  • a euphemism for genocide, sometimes used by perpetrators of genocide to disguise their actions[dubiousdiscuss]
  • Population control, artificially maintaining the size of any population
  • Culling, deliberate reductions in animal or plant population levels, by human action
  • the phase preceding the extinction of a species