population

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  1. noun All of the people inhabiting a specified area.
  2. noun The total number of such people.
  3. noun The total number of inhabitants constituting a particular race, class, or group in a specified area.
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  • According to many estimates, about 60\% of Iran's population is under 30 years old; however, what isn't often reported is that almost a quarter of the population is actually under 15 years old. —  Palestine Blogs aggregator
  • The baby boomers didn't have enough kids and the population is aging fast (i.e. the older cohorts are growing larger relative to the younger cohorts). —  Judicious Asininity
  • The population: 91. 4\% are white and 8\% of the population is age 65 or older, a fact that has remained fairly constant since the census of 2000.
  • Now that 15. 1\% of the population is Spanish-speaking, there are plenty of advantages to being bilingual. —  Youth Radio - Top News
  • Tennessee had two cities on the list and 30. 5\% of the population is actually less than what I imagined because I still have plenty of friends who smoke. —  Kingsport Times News - Daily 5
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  1. = French population = Spanish populacion, poblacion = Portuguese população = Italian popolazione, from Middle Latin populatio(n-), population (Late Latin a people, multitude), from populare, past participle populatus, people: see populate.
 

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