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Mr Gates has long been the subject of multiple conspiracy theories - the most extreme of which claim that he is part of an effort to depopulate the world.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2024

In general, Canada — like Ireland, where the fertility rate is about 1.77, higher than in Canada but still below replacement — faces a choice: Either take in migrants or depopulate.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2024

“The department’s inability to meet the minimal obligations to the young people in its care is a painfully clear demonstration of the need to urgently depopulate the halls,” the motion says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2023

The scale of a fishing operation can also make a big difference: overly intensive methods of catching fish can depopulate entire schools at once and cause serious imbalances in marine ecosystems.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2022

A mass exodus from North Korea could substantially depopulate the country, undermine its already inadequate capacity to grow food, and weaken—or perhaps even topple—the gov-ernment.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

If the resuscitation of the State is desired by his labor, neither will be secured by a persecution which depopulates townships, and prevents the introduction of new labor and of capital.”

From The Nation's Peril Twelve Years' Experience in the South by Anonymous

After a short period of activity, when the equal balance of loss and reparation is once removed, man quits the stage of life, and the law of mortality depopulates the earth.

From Philosophical Letters of Frederich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller

Some of the streets, especially that of Grand Chantier, he "depopulates."

From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by John Durand

Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui depopulates two leagues of            country near Cuzco  XXXIII.

From History of the Incas by Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham

In the Hebrides the failure of a harvest almost depopulates an island.

From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões

The Almaraz plant, which contributes around seven percent of Spain's electricity production, is a key source of industry and employment in mostly rural, depopulated Extremadura.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

“That a name evocative of Disneyland has been applied to a depopulated, decimated swath of Ukrainian coal-and-steel country could appear jarring as Europe’s deadliest fighting since World War II continues to rage,” they wrote.

From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2026

Whatever its actual length, there is no doubting the war’s traumatic impact upon France, where swaths of countryside were depopulated for decades, or the grievous toll upon combatants and civilians alike.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

The fear is that if these valleys become depopulated, other aspects of unique mountain culture could be lost too - like the Tschäggättä, traditional wooden masks, unique to the Loetschental valley.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2025

After a century of war, Volantis found herself broken, bankrupt, and depopulated.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

But when is the last time you read about anything good taking place in a deindustrialized, depopulating, or aging community?

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2024

The outer islands are steadily depopulating, as the appeal of making a life through tuna fishing and coconut farming along their crushed-coral seashores shrinks.

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2024

While most villages in Portugal’s interior are slowly depopulating, even former residents come back for these feasts.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2023

It could instead push against longstanding migration trends, pulling young people and families back to depopulating regions or small towns.

From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2021

Those who had been engaged to subscribe the bonds, could find no security but by turning out such tenants as they suspected of an inclination to conventicles, and thereby depopulating their estates.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II. by David Hume