population
n.
total number of people living in an area
Population
This article is about human populations. For the biological study of animal populations see
population biology.For the use of the word populations in statistics, see
statistical population. For the album by The Most Serene Republic, see
Population (album). In
sociology and
biology a population is the collection of
people or
organisms of a particular
species living in a given
geographic area or mortality, and
migration, though the field encompasses many dimensions of population change including the
family (
marriage and
divorce),
public health, work and the
labor force, and
family planning. Various aspects of human behavior in populations are also studied in
sociology,
economics, and
geography. Study of populations is almost always governed by the laws of
probability, and the conclusions of the studies may thus not always be applicable to some individuals. This odd factor may be reduced by statistical means, but such a generalization may be too vague to imply anything. Demography is used extensively in
marketing, which relates to economic units, such as retailers, to potential customers. For example, a
coffee shop that wants to sell to a younger audience looks at the demographics of an area to be able to appeal to this younger audience.
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population (f)
n.
population, inhabitance, people
Population
(n.)
The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.
(n.)
The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Population
in marketing research, the total group that a researcher wishes to study; also called the Universe.
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