Population reduction
# 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
