The people who inhabit a territory or state.

Roget 188: inhabitant; resident, residentiary^†; dweller, indweller^†; addressee; occupier, occupant; householder, lodger, inmate, tenant, incumbent, sojourner, locum tenens, commorant^†; settler, squatter, backwoodsman, colonist; islander; denizen, citizen; burgher, oppidan^†, cockney, cit, townsman, burgess; villager; cottager, cottier^†, cotter; compatriot; backsettler^†, boarder; hotel keeper, innkeeper; habitant; paying guest; planter.    native, indigene, aborigines, autochthones^†; Englishman, John Bull; newcomer etc. (stranger) 57.    aboriginal, American^†, Caledonian, Cambrian, Canadian, Canuck [Slang], downeaster [U.S.], Scot, Scotchman, Hibernian, Irishman, Welshman, Uncle Sam, Yankee, Brother Jonathan.    garrison, crew; population; people etc. (mankind) 372; colony, settlement; household; mir^†.    ... show more

Roget 372: man, mankind; human race, human species, human kind, human nature; humanity, mortality, flesh, generation.    [Science of man] anthropology, anthropogeny^†, anthropography^†, anthroposophy^†; ethnology, ethnography; humanitarian.    human being; person, personage; individual, creature, fellow creature, mortal, body, somebody; one; such a one, some one; soul, living soul; earthling; party, head, hand; dramatis personae [Lat.]; quidam [Lat.].    people, persons, folk, public, society, world; community, community at large; general public; nation, nationality; state, realm; commonweal, commonwealth; republic, body politic; million etc. (commonalty) 876; population etc. (inhabitant) 188.    tribe, clan (paternity) 166; family (consanguinity) 11.    cosmopolite; lords of the creation; ourselves.    ... show more

Dutch: bevolking, populatie
Polish: populacja, ludność, zaludnienie

A group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area.

Dutch: populatie, bevolking
Polish: populacja

statistics The entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn:
— It is an estimate of the mean of the population.

synonym: universe.

Dutch: universum, inwonertal, populatie

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.).

Dutch: bevolkingsdichtheid

The act of populating (causing to live in a place).

Polish: zaludnienie się