population Definition

1. All the people living in a particular country, area, etc.

Thesaurus: people, citizens, citizenry, residents, denizens, inhabitants, populace, occupants, natives, society, community, folk.
2. The number of people living in a particular area, country, etc.

Example: The city has a population of two million
3. A group of animals or plants of the same species living in a certain area; the total number of these.

Example: the declining elephant population
4. The process of populating an area.
5. statistics.
A group that consists of all the possible quantities or values relevant to a statistical study, from which representative samples are taken in order to determine the characteristics of the whole.