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Demographic engineering
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<p>Demographic engineering is deliberate effort to shift the ethnic balance of an area, especially when undertaken to create ethnically homogeneous populations. Demographic engineering ranges from falsification of census results, redrawing borders, differential <a href="/facts/Natalism/72wAxaLP">natalism</a> to change birth rates of certain population groups, targeting disfavored groups with voluntary or coerced emigration, and <a href="/facts/Population_transfer/JTSYub3c">population transfer</a> and resettlement with members of the favored group. At an extreme, demographic engineering is undertaken through <a href="/facts/Genocide/IjkNvg7y">genocide</a>. It is a common feature of conflicts around the world. </p>