Editing Human population planning (section)

==Types==
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Three types of population planning policies pursued by governments can be identified:

# Increasing or decreasing the overall population growth rate.
# Increasing or decreasing the relative population growth of a subgroup of people, such as those of high or low intelligence or those with special abilities or disabilities. Policies that aim to boost relative growth rates are known as [[positive eugenics]]; those that aim to reduce relative growth rates are known as [[negative eugenics]].
# Attempts to ensure that all population groups of a certain type (e.g. all social classes within a society) have the same average rate of population growth.