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population

(pɒpjʊleɪʃən )

Word forms: populations

1. countable noun B1

The population of a country or area is all the people who live in it.

The country now has a population of about 110 million. [+ of]

...the annual rate of population growth.

...the local population.

Synonyms: inhabitants, people, community, society

2. countable noun B2

If you refer to a particular type of population in a country or area, you are referring to all the people or animals of that type there. [formal]

...75.6 per cent of the male population over sixteen.

...areas with a large Black population.

...the elephant populations of Tanzania and Kenya.

Quotations:

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence only increases in an arithmetical ratioThomas MalthusThe Principle of Population

Collocations:

adult population

About four in five of the adult population has at least one deposit account.

Times, Sunday Times (2013)

Food allergy and intolerance have certainly become much more common in the adult population, and the reason is unknown.

The Vitality Diet (1990)

This is about the adult population, it isn't about children.

Times, Sunday Times (2006)

bee population

To encourage native bee populations to flourish, farmers should grow flower margins in fields.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

There remains uncertainty about the cause of the decline in the bee population.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

What can I do to boost the declining bee population?

Times, Sunday Times (2008)

bird population

Birds of prey have long been used to control bird populations.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

Has the bird population of the Thames estuary altered in recent years?

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

This decline in rain and snow was the major cause for the shriveling bird populations.

Smithsonian Mag (2018)

civilian population

It sent in troops and armour, saying they were there to protect its peacekeepers and the civilian population.

Times, Sunday Times (2008)

People were horrified by the sufferings inflicted on civilian populations.

The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century (1994)

This was the first example of mass bombing of a civilian population.

Times, Sunday Times (2009)

combined population

The Central European countries have a combined population of almost 100 million.

Basic Marketing. Principles and Practice (1986)

Boston, New York, and Philadelphia had a combined population of 50,000 at the time of the Revolution.

The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877 (1995)

At this period there were sixteen such Shaker villages in existence, with a combined population no larger than 4,500.

DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America (2004)

control a population

Birds of prey have long been used to control bird populations.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

On the East Coast, they play an important role in controlling the populations of small mammals, especially rodents.

Smithsonian (2019)

This was largely due to the one-child policy, introduced in 1979 as a way to control population and reduce widespread poverty.

Christianity Today (2000)

declining population

The country is facing the challenge of an ageing and declining population.

Times, Sunday Times (2013)

Germany has a declining population and considerable unused housing capacity.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

If a pastor can simply maintain the status quo in the face of declining populations, he will be considered a success.

Christianity Today (2000)

deer population

There has also been a massive increase in the deer population.

The Sun (2012)

As a result, the deer population in Connecticut is thriving.

A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden (1990)

A healthy, sustainable deer population must also be maintained, the RSPCA said.

Times, Sunday Times (2006)

dense population

It was a town with a large, dense population.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

You've got an incredibly dense population, which is itself growing.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

They focused their efforts on the cities, main arteries and areas of dense population.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

diverse population

Auckland has such a diverse population and this really shows in the food.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

And they all encompassed large territories, with diverse populations.

The Times Literary Supplement (2011)

But why lump together all the diverse populations that happen to share similar skin pigmentation?

Times, Sunday Times (2008)

dwindling population

A drive to save Britain's dwindling bee population has been urged by the government.

The Sun (2016)

Montreal holds over $300 million in church property but struggles with a radically dwindling church population.

Christianity Today (2000)

India has neither the land nor the funds to sustain cheetahs and the dwindling tiger population.

Times, Sunday Times (2009)

elderly population

There is a large elderly population, which may not appeal to younger buyers.

Times, Sunday Times (2013)

The hospital serves an elderly population with a combination of social and medical care.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

Only about 10 per cent of this frail elderly population have cancer.

Times, Sunday Times (2009)

elephant population

The country had one of the largest elephant populations in the world.

Times, Sunday Times (2008)

Zimbabwe's elephant population is down 10,000 from the 2001 census.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

In the south, elephant populations have increased, but this is not the picture all over the continent.

Times, Sunday Times (2008)

entire population

DNA could then be used to allow government surveillance of the entire population.

Times, Sunday Times (2009)

Gibraltar's entire population could fit in the stadium tonight with seats to spare.

The Sun (2013)

Over time, the system could well include our entire population.

Times, Sunday Times (2008)

feed a population

How could it be considered before the need to feed a hungry population?

Times, Sunday Times (2009)

It wouldn't have been easy to feed the population and trade would have collapsed.

Times,Sunday Times (2020)

The wheat of Egypt supplied at least a third of the grain necessary to feed the population of Rome.

Christianity Today (2000)

general population

There is not a lot of knowledge about fertility decline with age in the general population.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

Do you screen the general population, or just those with sudden cardiac death in the family?

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

Prisoners have better basic maths skills than the general population, a survey suggested.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

global population

As the global population gets older and richer, demand for healthcare is likely to rise.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

Disney Channel has discovered and exploited a whole new section of the global population.

Times, Sunday Times (2012)

On average, 63 people a year, from a global population of 6.8 billion, are attacked by sharks.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

jail population

Britain's jail population has doubled over the past two decades.

Times, Sunday Times (2013)

Prisoners aged over 60 are the fastest-growing sector of the jail population.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

Thousands of prisoners will avoid prison under plans to cut the jail population by 3,000 over the next four years.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

large population

India has the second largest population in the world, with four times more people than the USA.

Times, Sunday Times (2016)

Neither of those approaches could possibly work in a country with a larger population.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

Our economy may be larger because there is a larger population but how does the individual benefit from that?

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

local population

The local population is at best suspicious of our actions.

Times, Sunday Times (2007)

One of the journalists asked how large the local population was.

Times, Sunday Times (2013)

Here on the north Norfolk coast the local population is forced inland to have any hope of finding a home.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

minority population

Christians make up a minority population in the city.

Christianity Today (2000)

Republicans must reach out to America's growing minority populations.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

Why should a large part of the young male minority population be in prison?

Sociology (1995)

native population

The island of Kos, with a native population of 35,000, lies barely three miles from the Turkish coast.

Times, Sunday Times (2015)

Native populations who stood in the way of progress were slaughtered.

Times, Sunday Times (2016)

The foreign bees could change the genetic diversity of the native population.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

population expands

South Africa's white rhino population expanded to about 20,000.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

Now, clearly something has to be done about our expanding prison population.

Times, Sunday Times (2006)

New Jersey implemented the hunt in 2010 to reduce a rapidly expanding bear population.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

population increases

Between 1948 and 1958, the population increased from 800,000 to two million.

Christianity Today (2000)

Immigration added to growth because it increased the population.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

Such a long-term investment would secure supplies for the increasing population.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

population of a species

The finding could also help researchers produce better estimates on the population of the species, also known as the gray nurse shark.

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On the facts, there was no evidence that the population of the species would not maintain itself on a longterm basis.

Times, Sunday Times

But because the pre-whaling population of this species isn't known, scientists can't yet categorize it.

Globe and Mail

The population of this species may have declined for the past few decades due to a series of droughts in the 1980s.

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The seamounts are likely to be a source of larvae that maintains the population of the species in nearby, sub-optimal areas, known as sinks.

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population projection

Official population projections will have to be revised lower.

Times, Sunday Times

Dramatic life extension (if it extends healthy and active life) would upend population projections, with huge social ramifications.

Times,Sunday Times

However, population projections are based on expectations of human behaviour and policies: they are not automatic.

Times, Sunday Times

Official population projections have been hugely influenced by recent migration experience.

Times, Sunday Times

Population projections are mathematical extrapolations from facts.

Times, Sunday Times

population segment

We must look for those cultural bridges to every people group, population segment and cultural environment.

Christianity Today

A species under the act can be a true taxonomic species, a subspecies, or in the case of vertebrates, a distinct population segment.

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Evidence that the discrete population segment differs markedly from other populations of the species in its genetic characteristics.

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In these scenarios, population segments influence one another through changes in their attributes caused by influencing communications.

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For messages of health communication to reach selected audiences accurately and quickly, health communication professionals must assemble a collection of superior and audience appropriate information that target population segments.

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population size

It pointed out mortality rates have remained generally stable since 2011, taking into account population size and age.

The Sun

The study took into account forecasts of population size, ageing and national development.

The Sun

The projections raise concern regarding the sustainability of the future population size.

Times, Sunday Times

It was once fashionable to think that sporting glory would inevitably follow population size.

Times, Sunday Times

There may be a relationship between population size and national team quality, but even taking into account random fluctuation, this relationship will not explain everything.

Times, Sunday Times

population survey

In a general population survey, 1,188 adults 25 years and older were recruited and surveyed separately through a national consumer panel.

Christianity Today

Consequently, as the trust's population survey showed, there werefar fewernesting linnets in the countryside lastyear.

Times, Sunday Times

In 1945 the population was 110 while the total land area was 8,263 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.

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The census revealed growth by an average of 2.3 percent since the last population survey in 1999.

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In 1945 the population was 120 with 3111 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey.

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population swells

The population swells by a million people a day for leisure and business.

Times, Sunday Times

If the population swells by five million, this would increase to 9.4 billion.

Times, Sunday Times

Backed by rippling dunes and a wide swathe of sand, it's also catnip for families; in the summer holidays, the village population swells from 1,200 to 10,000.

Times, Sunday Times

The population swells with a large number of visitors in the summer.

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In 2000, it had a population of just under 6,000 people; however, the population swells to 10,000 during the octopus hunting season.

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population trend

For decades the long-term population trend has been positive.

Times, Sunday Times

In general, the population trend seems stable and no major threats have been identified.

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The population trend was stable when assessed in 2007.

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The population trend seems to be steady and no significant threats have been identified.

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The downward population trend was thereby slowed down or even reversed.

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proportion of a population

At the last minute, a barely adequate proportion of the population looked up briefly and noticed there was a referendum.

Times, Sunday Times

The proportion of the population aged under 14 contracted by 6.3 per cent, while the over-65s grew by 1.91 per cent.

Times, Sunday Times

However, the proportion of the population was roughly the same at 13 per cent.

Times, Sunday Times

The proportion of the population still lighting up has dropped below 20 per cent for the first time in a century.

Times, Sunday Times

And so it has for a significant proportion of the population - and for quite a lot of writers.

Times, Sunday Times

protect a population

The main purpose had been to protect the local population.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

The failure to protect those populations suffering from genocide cannot be accepted by governments.

Christianity Today (2000)

More importantly, it relies on protecting the wider population by stopping the spread of the disease.

The Sun (2016)

reduce a population

At the same time the prison population was reduced by 2 per cent.

Times, Sunday Times (2008)

It may reduce the worm population but test the soil pH first.

The Sun (2007)

I seem to remember reading that the male population was reduced by 90 per cent.

The Times Literary Supplement (2014)

refugee population

In 2013, the world refugee population exceeded 50 million, and it only went up in 2014.

Christianity Today

Meanwhile, the refugee population continues to grow.

Times, Sunday Times

The reason for its large refugee population can be attributed to more than just geography.

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The overwhelming majority of the population were original inhabitants, with no significant refugee population.

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resident population

About 55,000 people are expected to attend the festival, increasing the island's resident population of 140,000 by more than a third.

Times, Sunday Times

There was evidence of food preparation as well, though we did not find a resident population.

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At least 1.5million people, twice the city's resident population, are expected to attend.

The Sun

It still also sustained a resident population of foxes, cats, stoats and weasels.

Times, Sunday Times

There, the pathogen wiped out 96 percent of the resident population of fire salamanders in a few years.

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rural population

A car is essential to much of the rural population.

Times, Sunday Times (2012)

If the trend continues, the rural population will grow by nearly 20 % over the next 20 years.

Times, Sunday Times (2007)

Years of failed rains have pushed much of Kenya's rural population to the edge of survival.

Times, Sunday Times (2006)

shrinking population

A shrinking population also tends to act as a drag on economic growth.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

Portugal offered to take 10,000 migrants because of fears over its shrinking population.

Times, Sunday Times (2016)

As long as life expectancy remains high, shrinking populations mean average ages rise, and the burden on the young becomes intolerable.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

stable population

This combination of high mortality and high fertility led to slow and stable population growth until the 18th and 19th centuries.

Times, Sunday Times

Nature divides into species whose populations can expand rapidly, reflecting opportunities for growth when the environment allows it, and those with a more stable population.

Times, Sunday Times

They have an established and stable population in most towns and cities in this country.

Times, Sunday Times

So we will be approaching a period with a more stable population, but still we will need to find a way to feed an extra 2.3 billion mouths.

Times, Sunday Times

In 2000, there was a stable population of about two thousand rya sheep.

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student population

The university has one of the most diverse of student populations.

Times, Sunday Times (2006)

The two cities have a combined student population of more than 50,000.

Times, Sunday Times (2013)

The student population is one reason why demand for homes is so high.

Times, Sunday Times (2013)

substantial population

In addition, there were substantial population movements within each island, and significant changes resulted from this.

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There was always a fairly substantial population of artisans and small shopkeepers, to service the bigger houses.

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This indicates that there was a substantial population living where there are only a few houses now.

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The basin now attracts a substantial population of swans and ducks and passing motorist who stop to feed them.

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Famines, too, resulted in substantial population movements.

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support a population

The sites are protected by international treaties designed to preserve rare habitats and the endangered bird populations they support.

Times, Sunday Times (2014)

The majestic wildlife, like the grizzly bear, need these large wilderness areas to support healthy populations.

canada.com (2012)

Agriculture supports larger human populations than the hunter-gatherer lifestyle that preceded it.

The Times Literary Supplement (2019)

sustain a population

Without it the world would simply be unable to sustain the population it currently has.

Times, Sunday Times

The national park was meant to sustain a population of 300 lions.

Times, Sunday Times

Five thousand trouts are set out each year to sustain the population.

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They plan to sustain the population by carrying out two objectives.

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Without artificial fertilizers there would not be enough food to sustain a population of seven billion people.

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total population

Washington DC and Milwaukee account for less than one per cent of the total population of the nation.

Times, Sunday Times (2016)

India has a middle class of about 200 million, out of a total population of 1.1 billion.

Times, Sunday Times (2009)

Few cities have a higher proportion of the total population accounted for by immigrants.

Migrants in Modern France: Population Mobility in the Later Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1989)

urban population

Farmers were not productive enough to feed the rising urban population.

The Times Literary Supplement (2011)

For this new global urban population, these new cities can provide safety, affordable housing, education and jobs.

Times, Sunday Times (2010)

Ellis Island immigration between 1860 and 1910 resulted in dramatic increases in urban populations in America.

An Introduction to Community Health (1995)

vast population

The idea of wiping out a vast population of flamingos cannot fail to bring out a global protest: you simply can't do that.

Times, Sunday Times

It must take account of a vast population demanding greater personal and political freedom.

Times, Sunday Times

Likewise, a society needs a vast population of engineers to meet the needs of a vast society.

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The facility serves a vast population.

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On one side, we have polluted the rivers with industry and agricultural run-off; on the other, we have ripped out vast populations in the hope of finding pearls.

Times, Sunday Times

viable population

By reducing the size of a habitat, you swap one viable population for two island populations.

Times, Sunday Times

To sustain a viable population, every three pairs of lapwings must fledge two chicks a year between them.

Times, Sunday Times

Provided they are maintained and not sold off, a viable population should enjoy a secure future, safe from the threat of extinction.

The Sun

This process holds many of the same variables contained within viable population estimates, and thus should not be difficult to incorporate into policy.

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No data are available on minimal hammock size needed to support a viable population of tree snails.

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vulnerable population

If released, data and materials like these could imperil the livelihood, values or even survival of a vulnerable population, she explains.

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This would enable our most vulnerable population to afford our most affordable housing.

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Late in 1868, epidemics of cholera broke out among the vulnerable population, and there was no harvest in the spring of 1869.

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Reasons justifying the participation of these subjects would include that some studies could not be carried out without a vulnerable population.

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An adverse event will not rise to the level of a disaster if it occurs in an area without vulnerable population.

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whole population

It is only the second election in the country's history in which the whole population has a vote.

Times, Sunday Times (2011)

It seemed as if the whole population of the city rushed into the streets.

Vanity Fair (1837)

'Across the whole population this could produce a significant effect,' he said.

Times, Sunday Times (2006)

wild population

The current wild population of 23,000 has declined by about 50 per cent over the past two decades.

Times,Sunday Times

The wild population now stands at 1,000.

Smithsonian

Gene drives are deployed by genetically modified mosquitoes that are then released to breed with the wild population.

Times, Sunday Times

Treatment has been ruled out, as it requires a sixmonth course of antibiotics, which would be impossible to administer to a wild population.

Times, Sunday Times

Now, any farmed genes in the wild population look set to disappear.

Times, Sunday Times

wildlife population

And more than half underestimated the decline in wildlife population.

The Sun

Since the local authorities banned hunting in 1989, the wildlife population has soared.

Times, Sunday Times

To work out the size of a wildlife population, he says, you first have to know the average population density — numbers per hectare.

Times, Sunday Times

Poaching has hollowed out the area's wildlife population in recent decades.

Times,Sunday Times

Drones have also been labelled as game-changers for wildlife population monitoring.

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working population

More than 75 per cent of the working population has a workplace pension.

Times,Sunday Times

But they forget that almost 85% of the working population are employed in the private sector, by millions of large and small companies.

Times, Sunday Times

Are things any better among the working population?

Times, Sunday Times

The most recent government statistics show about 4,500 business start-ups during 2005, or one for every 388 of the working population.

Times, Sunday Times

About 45% of the working population pays no tax.

Times, Sunday Times

Translations:

Chinese: 人口

Japanese: 人口