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AlltheorganismsofagivenspeciesthatliveinaspecifiedregionPopulationisthetermtypicallyusedtorefertothenumberofpeopleinasinglearea.Governmentsconductacensustoquantifythesizeofaresidentpopulationwithinagivenjurisdiction.Thetermisalsoappliedtoanimals,microorganisms,andplants,andhasspecificuseswithinsuchfieldsasecologyandgenetics.Useoftheterm[edit]Socialsciences[edit]Insociologyandpopulationgeography,populationreferstoagroupofhumanbeingswithsomepredefinedcriterionincommon,suchaslocation,race,ethni...
All the organisms of a given species that live in a specified region
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 population within a given jurisdiction.
The term is also applied to animals, microorganisms, and plants, and has specific uses within such fields as ecology and genetics.
Use of the term[edit] Social sciences[edit]In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined criterion in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Demography is a social science which entails the statistical study of populations.
Ecology[edit]In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species who inhabit the same particular geographical area and are capable of interbreeding.[1][2] The area of a sexual population is the area where inter-breeding is possible b...