zero-population-growthhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zero-population-growth_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezero population growth, n.
Revised 2018

zero population growthnoun

  1. 1955–
    The absence of any increase (or decrease) in a population over a period of time; abbreviated ZPG.
    1. 1955
      The late stages of demographic transitions have usually been represented as involving close to zero population growth.
      Population Studies vol. 9 51
    2. 1967
      Most discussions of the population crisis lead logically to zero population growth as the ultimate goal.
      Science 10 November 732/2
    3. 1983
      Much of the push..for zero growth—both zero population growth and zero economic growth—has come out of concern about the immense environmental devastation being wreaked by unbridled growth.
      W. H. Blackstone in J. Howie, Ethical Princ. Social Policy ii. 36
    4. 2012
      The result has been zero population growth in one of the world's most underpopulated and unspoilt places.
      telegraph.co.uk (Nexis) 13 September

Originally published as part of the entry for zero, n. & adj.

zero, n. & adj. was revised in June 2018.