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Population is the term typically used to refer to the number of people in a single area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the size of a resident...

In world demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living. It was estimated by the United Nations to have exceeded eight...

town/city neighborhood or a district) that is dominated by its university population. The university may be large, or there may be several smaller institutions...

Population growth is the increase in the number of people in a population or dispersed group. Actual global human population growth amounts to around 83...

This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes...

A population pyramid (age structure diagram) or "age-sex pyramid" is a graphical illustration of the distribution of a population (typically that of a...

As of 2023,[update] the world's core Jewish population (those identifying as Jews above all else) was estimated at 15.7 million, which is approximately...

cited by Morehouse University as giving the mid-1990s figure of 278,250,800 Muslims in Africa, but still as 40.8% of the total population. These numbers are...

organisms by their population. While most of the numbers are estimates, they have been made by the experts in their fields. Species population is a science...

Population decline, also known as depopulation, is a reduction in a human population size. Throughout history, Earth's total human population has continued...

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans...

defined as population I and population II, with another newer, hypothetical division called population III added in 1978. Among the population types, significant...

The 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey (Greek: Ἡ Ἀνταλλαγή, romanized: I Antallagí, Ottoman Turkish: مبادله, romanized: Mübâdele, Turkish:...

A population bottleneck or genetic bottleneck is a sharp reduction in the size of a population due to environmental events such as famines, earthquakes...

divided into 10 provinces and three territories. The majority of Canada's population is concentrated in the areas close to the Canada–US border. Its four largest...

The United States had an official estimated resident population of 334,914,895 on July 1, 2023, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. This figure includes...

Canada ranks 37th by population among countries of the world, comprising about 0.5% of the world's total, with more than 40 million Canadians as of 2024...

Population transfer or resettlement is a type of mass migration that is often imposed by a state policy or international authority. Such mass migrations...

Population control is the practice of artificially maintaining the size of any population. It simply refers to the act of limiting the size of an animal...

The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in 1798, but the author was soon identified as Thomas Robert Malthus....