title: Population reduction
text: # 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
  * 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
  