population

All of the people inhabiting a specified area.

The total number of such people.

The total number of inhabitants constituting a particular race, class, or group in a specified area.

The act or process of furnishing with inhabitants.

All the organisms that constitute a specific group or occur in a specified habitat.

The set of individuals, items, or data from which a statistical sample is taken.

In biometry, a species, race, variety, or group of organisms that can be differentiated from other groups.

The act or process of populating or peopling: as, the rapid population of the country still continues.

The whole number of people or inhabitants in a country, county, city, or other locality: as, the population has increased 20,000 in four years; also, a part of the inhabitants in any way distinguished from the rest: as, the German population of New York.