Zero Population Growth
Zero population growth occurs when there is neither a net growth nor a net decline in population, but rather a steady state in which the numbers added by annual births and immigration exactly balance the numbers who die and emigrate each year. Zero population growth is the ideal to which nations (and the world as a whole) should aspire in the interests of achieving long-term environmental sustainability.
JOHN M. LAST
(SEE ALSO: Demography; Population at Risk; Population Growth; Population Policies)
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