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- noun
Insufficient population .
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Examples
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Moreover, few people are willing to recognize the growing evidence that many parts of the world face not overpopulation, but underpopulation.
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Note that the opposite problem, underpopulation, is much more serious if it happens, because it is difficult to recover from the loss of genetic diversity.
Threats to our Future Stephen D. Covey 2008
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The movie's twin problems, at least until the denouement, are predictability and underpopulation.
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The movie's twin problems, at least until the denouement, are predictability and underpopulation.
Spike Lee's misdirected war epic lm JOE MORGENSTERN 2008
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But this is the kind of thing that happened -- that people were saying before the 50s and the 60s, and then they were -- they reached dangerously low levels, which then did lead to the underpopulation.
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Anyone have any statistics or suggestions for google key-phrases with regards to the US facing a crisis with regards to underpopulation?
As we keep rollin’ back the clock to the ominous times for women 2005
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What are your direct concerns with what you perceive is underpopulation in the US, NYMom and Robert?
As we keep rollin’ back the clock to the ominous times for women 2005
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“What are your direct concerns with what you perceive is underpopulation in the US, NYMom and Robert?”
As we keep rollin’ back the clock to the ominous times for women 2005
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Where there's a will -- and as much unused land and wasted water, mineral and oil resources, underpopulation and undeveloped industries as in the vast Arab territories -- there's a way.
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This nation has overcome enormous obstacles of climate, geography, ethnicity and underpopulation to become one of the wealthiest, stablest and most respected nations on earth.
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