The word 'depopulation' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the reduction or decrease in population of an area or group. For example, "The depopulation of rural areas has caused a major impact on the local economy."
Speaking to The Independent, a UKIP spokesman acidly questioned why "a Polish prince with his lineage is not more concerned about Poland losing many of its best and brightest young people and now suffering from depopulation".
The increasing attractiveness of the city to the poor and less productive slows the process of depopulation but it reduces the odds that the city can stage a turnaround.In Detroit chronically bad government further worsened chances of a revival.
The vices of mankind are active and able ministers of depopulation...but should they fail in this war of extermination, sickly seasons, epidemic, pestilence and plague advance in terrific array, and sweep off their thousands and ten thousands.
IN HIS 1891 novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy lamented the depopulation of the English countryside.
In his 43 years in Congress Mr Rangel navigated the civil-rights era and survived dark decades of urban decay, crime and depopulation.
One suspects the tax rate has soared since that time; there was a lot more underdeveloped land available in Washington then, at the tail end of the city's era of high crime and depopulation, than there is now, after a decade of booming economic and population growth and plummeting crime rates.Even simply taking the 22% figure, we're left to conclude that the policy is extraordinarily costly.
The country's demographic headwind, for example, blows ever harder.Hundreds of towns and villages are threatened with depopulation.
Having learnt Persian in Tehran (he makes it sound as easy as learning to play snooker) he sets off for Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, two Central Asian despotisms where the collapse of Soviet rule has accelerated depopulation and man-made ecological disaster.
The port city's fortunes show how three forces sapping Japan's energies depopulation, overcentralisation and foreign competition—are hurting not just rural backwaters but once-prosperous cities on Japan's fringe.
The poem elegiacally describes the depopulation caused by emigration suffered by the village of Auburn, and it condemns the atmosphere that has replaced the pastoral good health of the past: the village has become a place "where wealth accumulates, and men decay".
But lately, employment has continued to decline slowly while shrinkage of the labour force has been steady, leading to a decline in the unemployment rate but not a particularly happy one.Depopulation in Nevada would be particularly unpleasant given the housing overhang in the state that has already driven home prices in Las Vegas down by nealry 60%.
