Routledge Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition
1 All of the finite number of items from which a statistical sample is taken.
2 The total number of residents of a country or area within it.
World population is dominated by China’s population that constitutes about a quarter of the total. The major determinants of population growth are the birth rate, the death rate and international MIGRATION.
See also: Malthus; statistics
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