population

See also: populâtion and Population

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin populatio (“a people, multitude”), as if a noun of action from Classical (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin populus.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃən/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /pɒpjuːˈleɪʃən/
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  Audio (US):

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• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

population (plural populations)

1. The people living within a political or geographical boundary.

   The population of New Jersey will not stand for this!

2. By extension, the people with a given characteristic.

   India has the third-largest population of English-speakers in the world.

3. A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.

   The town’s population is only 243.

   population explosion;  population growth

4. (biology) A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.
   • Template:quote-magazine

   A seasonal migration annually changes the populations in two or more biotopes drastically, many twice in opposite senses.

5. (statistics) A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
   • 1883, Francis Galton et al., Final Report of the Anthropometric Committee, Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, p. 269.

     […] it is possible it [the Anglo-Saxon race] might stand second to the Scandinavian countries [in average height] if a fair sample of their population were obtained.

6. (computing) The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.

   John clicked the Search button and waited for the population of the list to complete.

Related terms

• popular
• populate
• populous

Translations

all people living within a political or geographical boundary

• Afrikaans: bevolking
• Albanian: popullsisë f
• Arabic: سُكَّان m (sukkān)
• Armenian: բնակչություն (hy) (bnakčʻutʻyun), ^{(please verify)} պոպուլյացիոնիզմ (populyacʻionizm)
• Azerbaijani: əhali (az)
• Bavarian: Bevökarung
• Belarusian: насе́льніцтва n (nasjélʹnictva)
• Bengali: জনসংখ্যা (jonośoṅkha)
• Bulgarian: населе́ние (bg) n (naselénie)
• Burmese: လူဦးရေ (my) (luu:re)
• Catalan: població (ca) f
• Cebuano: kamulupyohan
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 人口 (zh) (rénkǒu)

• Crimean Tatar: eali, nufus
• Czech: obyvatelstvo (cs) n, populace (cs) f
• Danish: befolkning (da) c
• Dutch: bevolking (nl) f
• Esperanto: loĝantaro
• Estonian: elanikkond, rahvastik
• Finnish: väestö (fi)
• French: population (fr) f
• Galician: poboación (gl) f
• Georgian: მოსახლეობა (mosaxleoba)
• German: Bevölkerung (de) f
• Greek: πληθυσμός (el) m (plithysmós)
• Gujarati: વસ્તી (vastī)
• Hebrew: אוכלוסייה \ אֻכְלוּסִיָּה (he) f (ukhlusiyá), אוכלוסין \ אֻכְלוּסִין (he) m pl (ukhlusín)
• Hindi: जनसंख्या (hi) m (jansaṅkhyā), आबादी (hi) f (ābādī)
• Hungarian: lakosság (hu), népesség (hu)
• Icelandic: fólksfjöldi m, íbúar m pl, mannfjöldi (is) m
• Indonesian: populasi (id)
• Italian: popolazione (it) f
• Japanese: 人口 (ja) (じんこう, jinkō)
• Javanese: cacah jiwa
• Kazakh: халық (kk) (xalyq)
• Khmer: ប្រជាភិវឌ្ឍន៍ (brâchéaphĭvdthôn៍)
• Korean: 인구 (ko) (in'gu) (人口 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: калк (ky) (kalk)
• Ladino: poblasyon, פובלאסיון (poblasyon)
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• Lao: ປະຊາກອນ (lo) (pa sā kǭn)
• Latvian: iedzīvotāji
• Lithuanian: gyventojai (lt) f pl
• Luxembourgish: Bevëlkerung
• Macedonian: населе́ние n (naselénie)
• Malay: penduduk, populasi
• Malayalam: ജനസംഖ്യ (ml) (janasaṅkhya)
• Maori: taupori
• Mongolian: хүн ам (mn) (xün am)
• Norman: populâtion f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: befolkning (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: befolkning (nn) f, folkesetnad m

• Old English: landwaru f, leodræ f, þeodscipe m, eorþwaru f
• Persian: جمعیت (fa) (jam'iyyat), اهلیت (fa) (ahleyyat)
• Polish: ludność (pl) f
• Portuguese: população (pt) f
• Romanian: populație (ro) f
• Russian: населе́ние (ru) n (naselénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: становништво n

  Roman: stanovništvo (sh) n

• Slovak: obyvateľstvo n, populácia n
• Slovene: prebivalstvo (sl) n
• Spanish: población (es) f
• Swedish: befolkning (sv) c, population (sv) c
• Tagalog: populasyon, santauhan
• Tajik: маскун (maskun), аҳолӣ (tg) (aholi)
• Tatar: халык (tt) (xalıq)
• Telugu: జనాభా (te) (janābhā)
• Thai: ประชากร (bprà-chaa-gɔɔn)
• Turkish: nüfus (tr), popülasyon (tr)
• Turkmen: ilat
• Udmurt: улӥсьёс (uliśjos)
• Ukrainian: насе́лення (uk) n (nasélennja)
• Urdu: آبادی (ur) f (ābādī)
• Uzbek: aholi (uz), xalq (uz), nufus (uz)
• Vietnamese: dân số, dân cư (vi), cư dân (vi)
• Wolof: way-dëkk
• Yiddish: באַפֿעלקערונג f (bafelkerung)

biology: collection of organisms

• Dutch: populatie (nl), bevolking (nl)
• Estonian: populatsioon, asurkond
• Finnish: kanta (fi), populaatio (fi)
• French: population (fr) f
• German: Population (de) f
• Hebrew: אוכלוסייה \ אֻכְלוּסִיָּה (he) f (ukhlusiyá), אוכלוסין \ אֻכְלוּסִין (he) m pl (ukhlusín)
• Khmer: ប្រជាភិវឌ្ឍន៍ (pror jea phi vaut)
• Malay: populasi
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• Norman: populâtion f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bestand m, populasjon m

  Nynorsk: bestand m, populasjon m

• Portuguese: população (pt) f
• Russian: популя́ция (ru) f (populjácija)
• Swedish: population (sv) c, bestånd (sv) n

number of residents in a given area

• Arabic: سُكَّانِيَّة f (sukkāniyya)
• Armenian: բնակչություն (hy) (bnakčʻutʻyun)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 人口 (zh) (rénkǒu)

• Dutch: bevolking (nl), inwonertal n
• Estonian: rahvaarv, elanike arv
• Faroese: fólkatal n
• Finnish: asukasluku (fi), väkiluku (fi)
• German: Bevölkerungszahl (de) f, Einwohnerzahl (de) f
• Hebrew: אוכלוסייה \ אֻכְלוּסִיָּה (he) f (ukhlusiyá), אוכלוסין \ אֻכְלוּסִין (he) m pl (ukhlusín)
• Japanese: 人口 (ja) (じんこう, jinkō)
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• Malay: penduduk, populasi
• Malayalam: ജനസംഖ്യ (ml) (janasaṅkhya)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: folketall n, innbyggertall n

  Nynorsk: folketal n

• Portuguese: população (pt) f
• Russian: населе́ние (ru) n (naselénije)
• Spanish: población (es) f
• Swedish: befolkning (sv) c, population (sv) c, invånarantal n
• Turkish: nüfus (tr)

statistics: greater group of units from which a sample can be drawn

• Dutch: populatie (nl) f
• Estonian: üldkogum, populatsioon
• French: population (fr)
• German: Grundgesamtheit (de) f
• Hebrew: אוכלוסייה \ אֻכְלוּסִיָּה (he) f (ukhlusiyá), אוכלוסין \ אֻכְלוּסִין (he) m pl (ukhlusín)
• Icelandic: þýði n, hópur (is) m, stofn (is) m, (uncommon) lýður (is) m
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• Italian: popolazione (it)
• Portuguese: população (pt) f
• Spanish: población (es)
• Swedish: population (sv)
• Tagalog: sambagayan

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Translations to be checked

• Afrikaans: ^{(please verify)} bevolking
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• Marathi: ^{(please verify)} लोकसंख्या (loksaṅkhyā)

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin populatio, populationis, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin populus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.py.la.sjɔ̃/
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  Audio:

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Noun

population f (plural populations)

1. A population

Related terms

• populaire
• populeux

Further reading

• “population”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.