population · people

A population policy should be considered on the international viewpoint so as to balance the interests of both sides.

Thanks to the development of agricultural science, world food production has managed to keep up with population growth - but only at the expense of the future.

Each year the world's population increases on average by two percent.

One third of the population of that country cannot read.

By the end of June 2006, the number of netizens in rural China had reached three million, seven hundred and forty one thousand, making up 5.1% of the total rural population.