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Population
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| census | counts the population of a nation, state, or other geographic region. It records information about the population’s characteristics, such as age, gender and occupation. |
| Most populous continent is | Asia, with its 4.3 billion inhabitants accounting for 60% of the world population. |
| World's two most populated countries | China (1,354 billion) and India (1,27 billion), together constitute about 37% of the world's population. |
| Least-populated region isinhabitants (0.5%) | Oceania with about 38 million |
| world population | is the total number of living humans on Earth. |
| fertility rate —also called the birth rate— | is the number of live births per thousand population. |
| mortality rate—also called the death rate— | is the number of deaths per thousand people. |
| Human population control | is the practice of artificially altering the rate of growth of a human population |
| demography | science about population |