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Negative Population Growth is an organization in the United States, founded in 1972. NPG works on
overpopulation Overpopulation or overabundance is a phenomenon in which a species' population becomes larger than the carrying capacity of its environment. This may be caused by increased birth rates, lowered mortality rates, reduced predation or large scal ...
issues and advocates a gradual reduction in U.S. and world
population Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a ...
. NPG believes the optimal population for the United States is 150 to 200 million and that the optimal world population is two to three billion. In order to accomplish their goal of a smaller U.S. population, the organization promotes policies which would reduce the
fertility Fertility is the capability to produce offspring through reproduction following the onset of sexual maturity. The fertility rate is the average number of children born by a female during her lifetime and is quantified demographically. Fertili ...
rate in the U.S. to 1.5 births per woman, and they advocate for reducing the level of
immigration Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. Commuters, tourists, a ...
into the United States to 100,000 to 200,000 per year from the existing level of over 1.5 million per year. Membership stands at more than 25,000.


See also

* Agriculture and population limits * Criticisms of globalization *
List of population concern organizations This is a list of organisations who promote a moderation of the size of the human population. Intergovernmental organizations Worldwide Regional Asia-Oceania * All countries – Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development ...
*
Malthusian catastrophe Malthusianism is the idea that population growth is potentially exponential while the growth of the food supply or other resources is linear, which eventually reduces living standards to the point of triggering a population die off. This event, c ...
* Over-consumption *
Overpopulation Overpopulation or overabundance is a phenomenon in which a species' population becomes larger than the carrying capacity of its environment. This may be caused by increased birth rates, lowered mortality rates, reduced predation or large scal ...
*
Population Connection Population Connection (formerly Zero Population Growth or ZPG) is a non-profit organization in the United States that raises awareness of population challenges and advocates for improved global access to family planning and reproductive health ...
* Sustainability * ''
The Limits to Growth ''The Limits to Growth'' (''LTG'') is a 1972 report that discussed the possibility of exponential economic and population growth with finite supply of resources, studied by computer simulation. The study used the World3 computer model to simula ...
'' * '' The Revenge of Gaia'' * Voluntary Human Extinction Movement


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1972 establishments in the United States Immigration political advocacy groups in the United States Environmental organizations based in the United States Organizations established in 1972 Population concern advocacy groups Sustainability organizations {{Sustainability-stub