Definition of zero population growth in US English:
zero population growth
noun
The maintenance of a population at a constant level by limiting the number of live births to only what is needed to replace the existing population.
Example sentencesExamples
For the first time in Australia's history, zero population growth is both an aspiration and a looming possibility.
What are the implications of fertility rates well below zero population growth and the increasingly high value placed on having ever fewer children, especially in industrialized societies?
Fertility rates have dropped dramatically in many parts of the world, and much of Europe is at or near zero population growth.
Today, German women are having less than 1.4 children each - only two thirds the level needed to maintain zero population growth.
In the developed world, we've pretty much hit zero population growth.
Our supposedly rapacious western culture has reached near zero population growth.
The population of the United States is not on an exponential growth pattern, it's approaching zero population growth, even with immigration.
With a population of 7,587,000, Austria has maintained zero population growth in the last half of the twentieth century.
The planet has plenty of people, and will have long after zero population growth is reached around 2050.
Definition of zero population growth in US English:
zero population growth
noun
The maintenance of a population at a constant level by limiting the number of live births to only what is needed to replace the existing population.
Example sentencesExamples
With a population of 7,587,000, Austria has maintained zero population growth in the last half of the twentieth century.
For the first time in Australia's history, zero population growth is both an aspiration and a looming possibility.
What are the implications of fertility rates well below zero population growth and the increasingly high value placed on having ever fewer children, especially in industrialized societies?
In the developed world, we've pretty much hit zero population growth.
Today, German women are having less than 1.4 children each - only two thirds the level needed to maintain zero population growth.
Our supposedly rapacious western culture has reached near zero population growth.
The planet has plenty of people, and will have long after zero population growth is reached around 2050.
The population of the United States is not on an exponential growth pattern, it's approaching zero population growth, even with immigration.
Fertility rates have dropped dramatically in many parts of the world, and much of Europe is at or near zero population growth.