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This study explores how population decline affects the long-run performance of an economy in which exhaustible resources are indispensable for production. Using a one-sector neoclassical growth model with external increasing returns, we examine the conditions under which the expansion of per capita income and consumption can be sustained in the long-run equilibrium. We find that population decline, rather than exhaustible resources, can terminate the persistent growth in per capita income and consumption.