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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

County’s new Justice, Care and Opportunities Department established last year to depopulate, and eventually close, Men’s Central Jail by expanding community care for people being diverted or released from the justice system.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 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

Hence, "the horror of the taille depopulates the rural districts, concentrating in the towns all the talents and all the capital5254."

From The Ancient Regime by Durand, John

On Victoria Nyanza this disease depopulates whole villages.

From In Desert and Wilderness by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

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

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

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

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

Its supposed events take place in the twenty-first century of our era, when a devouring plague depopulates by degrees the whole world, until the narrator remains, to his own belief, the only surviving soul.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas

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

“Too many people think there’s nothing here, that we’re depopulated, so they try to place him here.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2024

It would also allow the return of civilians to the largely depopulated northern part of Gaza, and enable increased delivery of aid to the territory.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2024

It is this exact neighborhood, he realizes, colorless and depopulated and miniaturized.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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 county also committed to depopulating the jail by diverting some people into noncarceral beds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2023

His reasoning: Toronto, which has almost 9,000 homeless people at last count, took an approach similar to Seattle’s, depopulating shelters and putting 2,000 people in hotels.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2020

In exporting techno music from one converted factory to another, Mr. Craig is increasing its historical worth but also depopulating it, objectifying it, giving it the same cool power as Judd’s specific objects.

From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2020

All their force was employed in depopulating the country.

From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livius, Titus