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Definition: population from Processing Water, Wastewater, Residuals, and Excreta for Health and Environmental Protection: An Encyclopedic Dictionary

A group of interbreeding organisms of the same type or species occupying a particular space; the number of humans or other living creatures in a designated area. Population characteristics include birth and death rates, age distribution, density, growth rates, and sex ratio.

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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
the inhabitants of a given area, but perhaps most importantly, the human inhabitants of the earth (numbering about 7.5 billion in 2017), who by their increasing numbers and corresponding increasing needs can seriously affect the global ecosystem. History and Evolution General population increase in the world was negligible until the Industrial Revolution. From the time of the Roman Empire to the colonization of America, the world population grew from about a quarter billion to a half billion persons. By the early 19th cent., however, it had grown to one billion, and subsequently rose to more than 2 billion by 1930, 3 billion by 1960, 4 billion by 1975, more than 5 billion by 1990, and more than 6 billion by 2000; the United Nations estimates the world population could reach more than 11 billion around 2100. In world terms, the population is growing at about 1.1% annually (compared with 0.1% in ancient times and a rate of 1.75% as recently as the 1990s) in population. Although a 1.1% …
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From Collins Dictionary of Business
the total number of people resident in a country at a particular point in time. The UK, for example, had a population of 59 million people in 2004. The size of the population is determined by past and present birth and death rates, together with net migration trends – the number of people leaving…
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From The Essentials of Philosophy and Ethics
In recent years, the question of how many people there ought to be has perplexed ETHICISTS , trying to weigh up different UTILITARIAN calculations. More people, more HAPPINESS ; or is it too many people, less overall happiness? Or even, too many people now, less happiness for FUTURE GENERATIONS ? …
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From Collins Dictionary of Sociology
the totality of persons inhabiting a given location. ( STATISTICS ) the aggregate of individuals or items from which a SAMPLE is drawn. Quantitative aspects of the study of population are the subject matter of DEMOGRAPHY . Sociologists have been interested in moving beyond merely arithmetical…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
the inhabitants of a given area, but perhaps most importantly, the human inhabitants of the earth (numbering about 7.5 billion in 2017), who by their increasing numbers and corresponding increasing needs can seriously affect the global ecosystem. History and Evolution General population increase in…
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From Encyclopedia of Evolution
All of the members of one species within a defined area, such as a pond, a forest, a nation, or the world, constitute a population. Within this area, the individuals of the population are potentially able to interbreed, which is generally considered to define species membership. This is the…
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From Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
World population growth from 1950–2020 SOURCE:...
Population is a term to denote all of the organisms of the same species that occupy some specific area. It is a measurement used on local, state, national, and international levels to determine or measure such important information as governmental representation, appropriation of government funds…
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From The Oxford Companion to British History
Despite the work of John Graunt, whose Observations on the London bills of *mortality came out in 1662, and his friend Sir William *Petty , whose Political Arithmetick was published in 1690, little was known for certain in the 18th cent. of the size of the population of Britain or even whether it…
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From The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment
The population growth rate of the eighteenth-century British North American colonies was unprecedented in the Western world. This phenomenon and the reasons for it gained the close attention of men engaged in demography—a new science of the Enlightenment—and has continued to draw the attention of…
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From Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present Full text Article A-Z Entries
Population has greatly influenced trade, and trade has greatly influenced population throughout world history. Increased trade can increase population. The basis of trade is a comparative advantage. If each region specializes in producing the things that it can produce at the lowest opportunity…
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From Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World: A Companion to the City of Rome Full text Article The People
In one of the Variae he wrote as the praetorian prefect of the Gothic kings, in the thirties of the sixth century ce , Cassiodorus pointed out how big the population of the city of Rome had been in the past, as evidenced still in his time by the extent of the circuit of the wall, by the spaciousness…
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