subreplacement
English
Etymology
sub- + replacement
Adjective
subreplacement (not comparable)
- (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 (2011), →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.
- For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:subreplacement.
- 2011, James W. White, Mirrors of Memory: Culture, Politics, and Time in Paris and Tokyo, University of Virginia Press (2011), →ISBN, page 219: