population · people

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.

This year, Edinburgh began work on its fifteen-year regeneration project to transform its waterfront and provide its growing population with a new kind of living area.

They have a growing population; therefore they need more and more food.

We debated on the question of world population.

How large is the population of New York City?