population growth

Noun

Meaning

increase in the number of people who inhabit a territory or state

Synonyms

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

Examples

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

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems. Kailash Satyarthi

The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself. Emanuel Celler

Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother. Benazir Bhutto

The population of the earth today doubles regularly. If you were to draw up the population growth on a chart you would see that it goes back to zero about five thousand years ago. If man has been here millions of years like evolutionists teach, where is the population? Kent Hovind

Close letter words and terms