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population

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The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.

The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know. Noam Chomsky

The increase in the world's population represents our victory against death. Julian Simon

The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population. Denis Diderot

A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero. Garrett Hardin

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. G. M. Trevelyan

If you educate a woman, you have educated a population. Kiganda Proverb

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