population growth
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpopulationandgrowth
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population
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk/ˌpɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/us/ˌpɑː.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
all the people living in a particular country, area, ...
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growth
noun
uk/ɡrəʊθ/us/ɡroʊθ/
The growth of a person, animal, or plant is its process of increasing ...
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(Definition ofpopulationandgrowthfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thepopulationgrowthdecreased in time, expressed in day degrees, as density increased.
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Populationgrowthin 2000 was estimated to be 2.57%, and infant mortality was 80.97 deaths per 1,000 live births.
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Thepopulationgrowthof the wildlife depends on both the stock size and the size of the game reserve.
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In some recent theoretical work it has been proposed that resource scarcity, in turn, may affect fertility, and hencepopulationgrowthrates.
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However, a natural question to ask is whetherpopulationgrowth, in turn, is influenced by resource availability and to what extent?
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Of course, it is urgently necessary to reducepopulationgrowthand assist poor farmers with resource management problems in many countries.
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In addition, growth in world food production since 1960 has exceeded the world'spopulationgrowth, by an annual rate of approximately 0.6 per cent.
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Likewise, urbanpopulationgrowthshould stimulate demand for wood for construction and furniture making.
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This feedback could create a dynamically unstable 'vicious circle' betweenpopulationgrowthand resource depletion.
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Bothpopulationgrowthand its high concentration in rural areas have important consequences for environmental resources.
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Data on the ruralpopulationgrowthrate for 1960-5 were applied to the 1976-80 period.
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Vulnerability to climate change changes withpopulationgrowth, economic growth, and technological progress.
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Average annualpopulationgrowthduring 1990-94 was estimated at 2.5 per cent and in 1994 per capita income was $200.
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Concern aboutpopulationgrowthhas led to advances in birth control and other measures that have helped check the trend.
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Uncertainties remain about predictions of the rate of futurepopulationgrowth.
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Bothpopulationgrowthand selection tend to reduce allele age and hence reduce all the intra-allelic coalescence times.
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Maximum likelihood estimation ofpopulationgrowthrates based on the coalescent.
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The use of intra-allelic variability for testing neutrality and estimatingpopulationgrowthrate.
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Populationgrowthmakes waves in the distribution of pairwise genetic differences.
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Similarly, the social, economic and political consequences ofpopulationgrowthare adequately covered.
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