subreplacement

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English

Etymology

From sub- +‎ replacement.

Adjective

subreplacement (not comparable)

  1. (demography, of a birth rate) Below the level needed to maintain the current population.
    • 2011, James W. White, Mirrors of Memory: Culture, Politics, and Time in Paris and Tokyo, University of Virginia Press, →ISBN, page 219:
      The other is the fact that the population of Japan has begun to shrink, the result of years of subreplacement birth rates.
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