population

Noun

• the act of populating (causing to live in a place)
  • he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals
    

• 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
    

• (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn
  • it is an estimate of the mean of the population
    

• a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area
  • they hired hunters to keep down the deer population
    

• the people who inhabit a territory or state
  • the population seemed to be well fed and clothed