Demographic engineering

Results of demographic engineering: elimination of Greek and Armenian populations from Anatolia and Eastern Thrace

Demographic engineering is deliberate effort to shift the ethnic balance of an area, especially when undertaken to create ethnically homogeneous populations.^[1] Demographic engineering ranges from falsification of census results, redrawing borders, differential natalism to change birth rates of certain population groups, targeting disfavored groups with voluntary or coerced emigration, and population transfer and resettlement with members of the favored group.^[1] At an extreme, demographic engineering is undertaken through genocide.^[2] It is a common feature of conflicts around the world.^[3]