population

la población

population(pap-yuh-ley-shihn)

noun

1. (inhabitants)

a. la población

(F)

The population doubled in ten years.

La población se duplicó en una década.

2. (act of settling)

a. la población

(F)

The first population of the area happened over a century ago.

La primera población del área pasó hace más de un siglo.

population

Noun

1. (general)

a. la población

(F)

population explosionexplosión demográfica

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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 population 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 population el 75% de la población masculina

a prison population of 44,000 prison populations are rising

the student population 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

prison

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 (m) or centro (m) de población

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 (m) demográfico

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 (f) de población

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 (f) demográfica

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 (m) demográfico

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