Noun
1. the people who inhabit a territory or state;
"the population seemed to be well fed and clothed"2. a group of organisms of the same species populating a given area;
"they hired hunters to keep down the deer population"3. (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn;
"it is an estimate of the mean of the population"4. the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.);
"people come and go, but the population of this town has remained approximately constant for the past decade""the African-American population of Salt Lake City has been increasing"5. the act of populating (causing to live in a place);
"he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"