Meaning & Definition of Population in English

1. The people who inhabit a territory or state

• "The population seemed to be well fed and clothed"

2. A group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area

• "They hired hunters to keep down the deer population"

3. (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn

• "It is an estimate of the mean of the population"

4. 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"

5. The act of populating (causing to live in a place)

• "He deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"