National Security Study Memorandum 200

[2] Some assert that the growth of future generations birthed throughout the world posed a danger to wealth accumulation, and wealthy individuals backed the US government policy of global population control in an effort to avoid blame.

In summary, the NSSM200 provides four main observations:[3] It recommends that US leadership "influence national leaders" and that "improved world-wide support for population-related efforts should be sought through increased emphasis on mass media and other population education and motivation programs by the UN, USIA, and USAID."

World needs for food rise by 2.5 percent or more per year (making a modest allowance for improved diets and nutrition) at a time when readily available fertilizer and well-watered land is already largely being utilized.

"Countries with large population growth cannot afford constantly growing imports, but for them to raise food output steadily by 2 to 4 percent over the next generation or two is a formidable challenge."

[1] Days later on December 15, 1975, US ambassadors were informed to assist in implementation of the policies of NSDM 314 and to participate in the assessment of population growth concerns in their host nations.

[1] The policies adopted from NSSM200 and NSDM 314 developed even further in 1976 after the National Security Council advocated for the use of withholding food aid to encourage adoption of family planning approaches to prevent high population growth, with a memorandum reading; "In some cases, strong direction has involved incentives such as payment to acceptors for sterilization, or disincentives such as giving low priorities in the allocation of housing or schooling to those with larger families.

[1][2] This resulted in proposing to foreign nations the creation of aid-for-sterlization, housing-encouraged by sterilzation projects, or schooling aid connected to population planning[1] while also calling for: "..a development strategy which emphasizes the rural poor, who are the largest and poorest group in most LDCs would be providing income increases to those with the highest fertility levels.

[3] According to the Subcommittee of Inquiry of Voluntary Surgical Contraception of the Congress of the Republic of Peru in June 2002, NSSM200 was "the global strategy defined for the last quarter of the last century by the United States government in order to obtain a decrease in the birth [growth] rate" and was responsible for the involvement of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in forced sterilizations in Peru.