population
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Switzerland will vote in a referendum to limit its permanent-resident population to below 10 million until 2050, from 9.1 million currently.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
“We are buying growth with immigration,” said Heidi Z’graggen, a centrist national politician who says she plans to vote yes to the population cap.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
Required investments for the newcomers—in new roads, homes, hospitals and machinery—can hurt overall economic productivity, according to Manning, because that capital could have been used to better equip the existing population.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
The female flies only mate once, so sterilized males help suppress the population.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
He told them that he wanted the Sudetenland, the western portion of Czechoslovakia where another large ethnic German population lived.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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