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Meaning of population in English

population
noun [ C, + sing/pl verb ]
us
/ˌpɑː.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/ uk
/ˌpɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/
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B1
all the people living in a particular country, area, or place:
Ten percent of the population lived in poverty.
In 1992 the population of Cairo was approximately 6,500,000.
a growing/shrinking population
Throughout the war, there were horrific casualties among the civilian populations of both countries.
The UN is investigating new methods of population control (= limiting the growth of the number of people).
The country is facing a population explosion (= sudden growth in the number of people).
B2
all the people or animals of a particular type or group who live in one country, area, or place:
There's been a nine percent rise in the prison population (= the number of people in prison).
The dolphin population has been decimated by tuna fishing.
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(Definition of population from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

population | Intermediate English

population
noun [ C/U ]
us
/ˌpɑp·jəˈleɪ·ʃən/
(abbreviation pop.)
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all the people living in a particular country, area, or place:
[ U ] What is the population of Toronto (= how many people live there)?
biology
Population is also used to refer to all the living things of a particular type or group who live in a particular area or environment.
(Definition of population from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

population | Business English

population
noun
uk
/ˌpɒpjəˈleɪʃən/ us
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[ S or U ]
the number of people living in a particular country, area, or town:
a population of 12,000/175,000/13 million, etc. With a population of 2.1 million, it is the country's 25th largest metropolitan area.
We've seen a slow but steady decline in population over the years.
In these countries there is still rapid population growth.
[ S ]
all the people living in a particular country, area, or town:
10% of the population were living in poverty.
[ C, usually singular ]
all the people or animals of a particular type or group that live in one country, area, or town:
More than half of the world's working population has no formal employment or social security arrangements.
With the restrictions on hunting, deer populations have begun to grow.

See also

active population
floating population
(Definition of population from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of population

population
So it's those populations that we're concerned about.
From Voice of America
There has been significant progress in providing banking services to villages with population above 2,000.
From Business Insider
Populations of any kind are going to vacillate over time.
From Minneapolis Star Tribune
That does not sound like world population is on the verge of decline.
From TIME
No other country in the top 25 has more than 6% of its population foreign born.
From Huffington Post
Why do we continue to put pressure on wild populations?
From National Geographic
What will the rest of the population do?
From Phys.Org
There are things that seemed to cut across populations.
From NPR
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Collocations with population

population

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aboriginal population
The area also has a significant and relatively young aboriginal population.
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adolescent population
Measuring life events in an adolescent population : methodological issues and related findings.
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adult population
And 39 per cent of the adult population, as many as 225 million people, remains illiterate.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
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Translations of population

in Chinese (Traditional)
人口, 全體居民, （統稱）（一定範圍內的）人口，動物總數…
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人口, 全体居民, （统称）（一定范围内的）人口，动物总数…
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población, población [feminine, singular]…
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população, população [feminine]…
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人口, 住民数, （ある地域の）全住民…
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जनसंख्या, किसी विशेष देश, क्षेत्र या स्थान में रहने वाले सभी लोग…
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befolkning…
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befolkning, folkmängd…
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jumlah penduduk…
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die Bevölkerung…
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befolkning [masculine], befolkning…
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населення…
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జనాభా/ ఒక నిర్దిష్ట దేశం, ప్రాంతం లేదా ప్రదేశంలో నివసిస్తున్న ప్రజలందరూ…
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জনসংখ্যা…
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obyvatelstvo…
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penduduk…
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liczba mieszkańców, populacja, ludność…
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popolazione…
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