population

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population UK [ˌpɒp.jʊˈleɪ.ʃ ə n] US [ˌpɑː.pjə-] noun countable + singular or plural verb [ populations ]
1. <E > all the people living in a particular country, area or place
• Ten per cent 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 amongst 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).
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Environmental issues ↑Rubbish and waste ↑Protection and protectors
2. <A > all the people or animals of a particular type or group who live in one country, area or place
• There's been a 9% rise in the prison population (= the number of people in prison).
• The dolphin population has been decimated by tuna fishing.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Environmental issues ↑Rubbish and waste ↑Protection and protectors
 
Collocations:
Types
the adult female male population
• Some sub-Saharan countries could lose a quarter of their adult population to the disease.
the black Hispanic Jewish white population
• The district's black and Hispanic populations have grown since then.
the indigenous native population
• In the far north-east it was still the non-Russian indigenous population which predominated.
the ethnic [Albanian/Russian, etc.] population
• The community are part of Indonesia's ethnic Chinese population.
a minority population
• The city has a large minority population.
the immigrant refugee population
• As the conflict continues, the refugee population is increasing.
the local rural urban population
• Eco-tourism within the park will benefit the local population.
the general population
• Infection rates are much higher among prison inmates than among the general population.
the voting-age working population
• A third of the working population earns less than the equivalent of five pounds a week.
the civilian population
• Connecticut and New York have numerous military installations near civilian population centres.
the prison student population
• Prison populations are rising while crime rates are dropping.
Adjectives


an ageing elderly population
• The latest census figures show a rapidly ageing population.
an expanding growing population
• Central Florida's growing population is increasing traffic through hospitals.
a sparse population
• A principal characteristic of the Highlands and Islands is their sparse population.
the entire overall total whole population
• At weekends the entire population of Christchurch seems to be here.
Nouns
a cross-section percentage proportion segment of the population
• A high proportion of the population is still very poor.
the bulk majority of the population
• The bulk of the population resides between Monterey Bay and the Channel Islands.
a population centre
• Salt Lake is a smallish city far from any major population centre.
a population group
• There are efforts at increasing the screening process in population groups more likely to be affected.
population control density growth
• The Western states have seen enormous population growth in the past decade.
population figures numbers
• The researchers used population figures from the Census Bureau.
a population explosion
• There was a huge population explosion after the Second World War.
a member of the population
• Every member of the population is registered with a doctor.
Verbs
have a population of [2 million, fifty thousand, etc.]
• Colombia has a population of 39.3 million.
the population grows increases
• Denver's downtown population has increased by some 50,000 since 1991.
the population declines decreases drops
• The population of the countryside is declining.
Prepositions
the population of sth
• 19 per cent of the population of Wales speak Welsh.
among the [general/Hispanic/local, etc.] population
• There are high rates of diabetes among the Native American population.
Adverbs
the population at large
• These proposals are unpopular with the business community as well as the population at large.
 
• Children make up a large proportion of the world's population.
• The population as a whole is getting healthier.
• The early settlers enslaved or killed much of the native population.
• In the past eight years, the elephant population in Africa has been halved.
• Many of the world's cities have populations of more than 5 million.