population

la población

noun

population
[pɒpjʊˈleɪʃən]
sustantivo
1población (f)
  • population explosion -> explosión (f) demográfica

population [po-piu-lei-shon]
sustantivo
1Población, el número total de habitantes de un lugar o una extension dada de territorio.
2Población, acción de poblar, de proveer de habitantes, de multiplicarlos.
  • Population explosion -> explosión demográfica

population [ˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃən] ?
noun
1 (inhabitants) población; (f)
what is the population of Mexico? ¿qué población tiene México?; ¿cuántos habitantes hay en México?
areas with a large black population Bangladesh now has a population of about 110 million the necessity of feeding a growing population 44.5% of rural communes continued to record a decrease in population the planners' brief was to modernize and enlarge in order to cope with the projected increase in population
they go to the cinema more often than the general populationgeneral van al cine con más frecuencia que la población en general
fewer than one in 10 of the [general] population this privilege was later extended to the general population 800 dollars per [head] of population
75% of the male populationmale el 75% de la población masculina
a prison population of 44,000 prison populations are rising
the student populationstudent la población estudiantil
[whale] populations had started to recover the elephant populations of Tanzania and Kenya the [local] population there is tremendous tension between the local population and the refugees the [working] population a high proportion of the working population is engaged in agriculture
2 (settling) población; (f)
the government encouraged the population of its eastern territories by migrants from the highlands
modifier
the results of the 1982 population census
population centre (n) núcleo centro de población; (m)or (m)
there were reports of air strikes against civilian population centres Iraqi missile attacks on Israel's population centers the major industrial and population centres of India
population control (n) control demográfico; (m)
they presented family planning, not in terms of population control, but as a family health progra a leading Chinese social scientist has called on the government to tighten population control female infanticide was the primary means of population control
population density (n) densidad de población; (f)
Taiwan has a very high population density enormous empty spaces and low population density Poland's population density was half that of Germany
population explosion (n) explosión demográfica; (f)
the population explosion has a devastating effect on the environment a population explosion and ongoing drought has helped create dangerous water shortages in Jordan, Israel and the occupied territories people lived longer and a population explosion began there are no reliable population figures available India announced dramatic new population figures today
population growth (n) crecimiento demográfico; (m)
the annual rate of population growth unless population growth slows, humanity will become unsustainable there are signs that the rate of population growth may be slowing the population pressures driving agricultural deforestation what threatens the ecology of the area the most is population pressure rather than industry

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