populations

n. total number of people living in an area

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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n. population, inhabitance, people

Noun
1. the people who inhabit a territory or state; "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed"
(hypernym) people
(hyponym) home front
(derivation) dwell, shack, reside, live, inhabit, people, populate, domicile, domiciliate
2. a group of organisms of the same species populating a given area; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population"
(hypernym) group, grouping
(hyponym) overpopulation, overspill
3. (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population"
(synonym) universe
(hypernym) collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
(hyponym) subpopulation
(classification) statistics
4. the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.); "people come and go, but the population of this town has remained approximately constant for the past decade"; "the African-American population of Salt Lake City has been increasing"
(hypernym) integer, whole number
5. the act of populating (causing to live in a place); "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"
(hypernym) colonization, colonisation, settlement
(derivation) people, populate