Population Control

Definition: Population Control

Population Control

Noun

1. Control over the growth of population; a government program.

Specialty Definition: Population Control

Domain	Definition
Health	Includes mechanisms or programs which control the numbers of individuals in a population of humans or animals. (references)
Medicine	A policy of attempting to limit the growth in numbers of a population, especially, in poor or densely populated parts of the world, by programmes of contraception or sterilization. Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Population control

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Population control is the practice of curtailing population increase, usually by reducing the birth rate. The practice has sometimes been voluntary, as a response to poverty, or out of religious ideology, but in some times and places it has been government-mandated. This is generally done to try to prevent a believed threat of Malthusian catastrophe, or overpopulation in general.

Given the nature of human reproductive biology, controlling the birth rate generally implies one of the following practices:

sexual abstinence
contraception
sterilization
abortion
infanticide

An important example of mandated population control is China's one child policy, in which having more than one child is made extremely unattractive. This has led to allegations that practices like infanticide, forced abortions and forced sterilization are used as a result of the policy.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Population control."

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Synonym: Population Control

Synonym: Birth control. (additional references)

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Crosswords: Population Control

English words defined with "population control": Population Commission. (references)

Specialty definitions using "population control": Chemosterilants ♦ democratic mutually synchronized network, democratic network ♦ Family Planning Policy, FIRE ASSISTANT, fire deputy, fire-control assistant ♦ genetic programming ♦ Integrated Pest Management ♦ Pest Control, Biological, psychological consolidation activities, Public Health ♦ RCT, relative risk ♦ SANITARY-LANDFILL SUPERVISOR, State Dentistry ♦ VECTOR CONTROL ASSISTANT ♦ WILDLIFE CONTROL AGENT. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Population Control

Domain	Title
Books	From Malthus to the Club of Rome and Back: Problems of Limits to Growth, Population Control, and Migrations (Columbia University Seminars) (reference) Crimes Against Fecundity: Joyce and Population Control (Irish Studies) (reference) (more book examples)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Population Control

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Due to government population control and demographic trends, both extremes of the Chinese age spectrum offer promising HCS markets in pediatrics and geriatrics. (references)
Economic History	India	Established in 1985, SAARC encourages cooperation in agriculture, rural development, science and technology, culture, health, population control, narcotics, and terrorism. (references)
Human Rights	China	Population control policy relies on education, propaganda, and economic incentives, as well as on more coercive measures, including psychological pressure and economic penalties. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Population Control

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
population control	61
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Modern Translation: Population Control

Language		Translations for "population control"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		befolkningskontrol. (various references)

Dutch		bevolkingsbeperking. (various references)

French		limitation de la population. (various references)

German		Geburtenkontrolle (birth control). (various references)

Greek		έλεγχος γεννήσεων. (various references)

Hungarian		népességszabályozás. (various references)

Italian		limitazione della popolazione, controllo della popolazione. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		人口抑制 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		じ�"�"うよくせい. (various references)

Pig Latin		opulationpay ontrolcay

Russian		ограничение рождаемости. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kontrola ukupnog broja stanovništva. (various references)

Spanish		limitación de la población. (various references)

Swedish		befolkningkontroll. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Population Control

Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-l-n-n-o-o-o-o-p-p-r-t-t-u"
	-5 letters: contortional.
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