population's

Belonging to residents

Population's is the possessive form of population, indicating something belonging to or associated with a population.

It appears before nouns to show that characteristic, quality, or attribute pertains to a group of people or organisms: the population's growth rate, the population's health outcomes.

The numbers following this entry appear to be data artifacts rather than part of the word itself.

demographic

census

Official population count

aging · size · distribution · statistics · trends · fertility · mortality · migration · composition · pyramid

scientific

sample

Subset for study

  • studyDeliberate learning effort
  • geneticsScience of hereditary transmission
  • ecologyStudy of environmental relations

species · organism · variation · data · research · biology · gene · pool · dynamics · modeling

social

welfare

Comfort and prosperity

services · segment · vulnerable · underserved · majority · minority · indigenous · immigrant · refugee · displaced

geographic

region

Indefinite bounded area

  • cityLarge populated area
  • countrySovereign state or territory
  • urbanPertaining to cities

rural · local · national · global · concentration · dispersion · settlement · territory · area · district

statistical

mean

Average, or spiteful

survey · proportion · subset · stratification · correlation · analysis · inference · distribution · standard · deviation

Opposites
collective vs. individual scope

population'sindividual's

Belonging to one entity

person's · citizen's · one's · someone's · member's

whole vs. part

population'ssample's

Of a representative piece

cohort's · segment's

Phrases
Family

population, populations, overpopulation, depopulation, repopulation, underpopulation

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G