Census vs. Population

Censusnoun

An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.

Censusnoun

Count, tally.

Censusverb

To collect a census.

Censusnoun

A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; - usually made once in five years.

Censusnoun

An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country.

Censusnoun

a period count of the population

Censusverb

conduct a census;

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically calculating, acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include the census of agriculture, and other censuses such as the traditional culture, business, supplies, and traffic censuses.

Populationnoun

The people living within a political or geographical boundary.

Populationnoun

By extension, the people with a given characteristic.

Populationnoun

A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.

Populationnoun

(biology) A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.

Populationnoun

(statistics) A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.

Populationnoun

(computing) The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.

Populationnoun

The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.

Populationnoun

The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.

Populationnoun

the people who inhabit a territory or state;

Populationnoun

a group of organisms of the same species populating a given area;

Populationnoun

(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn;

Populationnoun

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.);

Populationnoun

the act of populating (causing to live in a place);

Populationnoun

all the inhabitants of a particular place

Populationnoun

a particular group or type of people living in a place

Populationnoun

the extent to which an area is or has been populated

Populationnoun

the action of populating a place.

Populationnoun

a community of animals, plants, or humans among whose members interbreeding occurs

Populationnoun

a finite or infinite collection of items under consideration.

Populationnoun

each of three groups (designated I, II, and III) into which stars can be approximately divided on the basis of their manner of formation

Population

In biology, a population is a number of all the organisms of the same group or species who live in a particular geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals from other areas.In sociology, population refers to a collection of humans.