Governments often enact population policies to decrease or limit population growth for all of the following reasons except __________.

Governments may limit population growth to reduce pressure on food supplies and land, ease economic strain, or help improve people’s standard of living. Maintaining a national majority is not a usual reason to decrease or limit population growth; it may instead motivate policies that encourage population growth. Therefore, the exception is “to maintain a national majority.”

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