population decline
Fewer people over time
Population decline is a sustained decrease in the number of people living in a region, country, or other defined area.
It results from falling birth rates, rising death rates, emigration, or some combination of these.
Demographers distinguish between natural decline (more deaths than births) and decline driven by migration.
Rural areas across the developed world face population decline as young people move to cities.
The term often carries economic concern—shrinking workforces, aging populations, and reduced tax bases.
Leaving homeland permanently
- exodusMass departure from somewhere
- diasporaScattered population sharing origins
- outflowFluid exiting a system
- relocationPermanent change of residence
Statistical population characteristics
- grayingLosing color with age
- pensionersRetired benefit recipients
- retirementLeaving the workforce permanently
- elderlyAdvanced in age
longevity · senescence · gerontology · geriatrics · old-age · childlessness
Complete destruction or removal
- overhuntingExcessive wildlife killing
- overfishingUnsustainable marine harvest
- poachingUnlawful wildlife capture
- deforestationLarge-scale woodland elimination
Deindustrialized American region
- deindustrializationLoss of industrial capacity
- revitalizationRestoring vigor or vitality
- post-industrialAfter manufacturing's dominance
emigration
Leaving homeland permanently
demographics
Statistical population characteristics
- grayingLosing color with age
- pensionersRetired benefit recipients
- retirementLeaving the workforce permanently
elderly · longevity · senescence · gerontology · geriatrics · old-age · childlessness
extirpation
Complete destruction or removal
- overhuntingExcessive wildlife killing
- overfishingUnsustainable marine harvest
- poachingUnlawful wildlife capture
deflation
Sustained decrease in prices
- automationSelf-operating system design
rust-belt
Deindustrialized American region
- deindustrializationLoss of industrial capacity
- revitalizationRestoring vigor or vitality
- post-industrialAfter manufacturing's dominance
- US demographicsmedian age, age distribution, birth rates, death rates, fertility rates
- wildlife populationsfish stocks, subpopulation, carrying capacity, conservation status, deme
- paleodemographyage at death, mortality rates, fertility rates, life expectancy, infant mortality
- populationspatients, inpatients, outpatients, elderly patients, stroke patients
- decreasesreduction, drop, fall, decrease, lessening
- bird ecologybird habitats, bird migration, nesting, breeding, bird conservation
population declinepopulation growth
Increase in inhabitants over time
baby boom · population explosion · population boom · overpopulation · exponential growth
decline, population, populate, populated, populations, populating, depopulate, overpopulation, depopulation