population control
Limiting human numbers
Population control refers to policies or practices aimed at limiting population growth, typically through regulating birth rates.
Methods range from voluntary family planning programs to coercive measures like China's former one-child policy.
The term also applies to managing animal populations: deer population control through regulated hunting.
Critics note its historical association with eugenics and forced sterilization programs targeting marginalized groups.
- family planningControlling fertility deliberately
- contraceptionPregnancy prevention measures
- birth rateLive deliveries per thousand
- cullingSelective population reduction
- carrying capacityPopulation an environment sustains
vasectomy · sterilization · eugenics · abortion · invasive species · wildlife management · one-child policy · hunting regulations · biodiversity loss · species extinction · coercion · tubal ligation · resource depletion · Malthusianism · fertility rate · gender equality · public health campaigns · resources
- Dystopia1984, Nineteen Eighty-Four, dystopian fiction, totalitarianism, Brave New World
- pest controlinsecticide, rat trap, pesticide, mousetrap, exterminator
- reproductive healthpregnancy, infertility, childbirth, male infertility, fertility rates
- overpopulationovercrowding, crowding, carrying capacity, birth rate, fertility rate
- Reproduction Policynatalism, pronatalism, family planning, birth rate, fertility rate
- biopoliticsbody politics, eugenics, reproductive rights, body autonomy, sterilization
population controlreproductive freedom
reproductive rights · reproductive autonomy · bodily autonomy · population explosion
population controlpopulation growth
Increase in inhabitants over time
pronatalism · natalism · population boom · baby boom · baby bonus
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