world population
collocation in Englishmeaningsofworldandpopulation
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world
noun
uk/wɜːld/us/wɝːld/
the earth and all the people, places, and things ...
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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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(Definition ofworldandpopulationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofworld population
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There is nothing new about the fact that theworldpopulationis growing old.
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It represents a growing threat to our ability to control disease and to feed theworldpopulationin the future.
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This is certainly an improvement on the situation in the 1850s, when over half of the adultworldpopulationwas illiterate.
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This is driven in part by the need to feed a growingworldpopulationand the degradation of existing agricultural lands.
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The overall increase inworldpopulation(currently 1.7% per annum) is partly to blame, especially in the third world.
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Between 1950 and 2000, theworldpopulationexpanded from 2.5 billion to 6 billion.
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About 23 percent of theworldpopulationis illiterate.
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In terms ofworldpopulation, the developed countries who, for better or worse, made the modern world are rapidly becoming a small minority.
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One may accept the general thesis that aggregateworldpopulationgrowth has few redeeming qualities, but what about population concentration?
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Rates are standardized according to age distribution ofworldpopulationin 1960.
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A second group contains regions whose proportions ofworldpopulationwere the largest in 1500 and 1750 in their respective histories.
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However, education does appear to have a definite bearing on attitudes towards theworldpopulationgrowth rate and towards population limitation.
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Prosperity for all then must mean a smallerworldpopulation.
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However, at present, the proposed systems fall gravely short in addressing another crucial issue, feeding theworldpopulation.
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These countries account for 81 per cent of theworldpopulationin 1990.
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The development of novel forms of contraception is one way in which theworldpopulationcrisis is being tackled.
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They represent the most common single-gene disorders, with 4.83% of theworldpopulationcarrying globin gene variants.
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Increasing awareness ofworldpopulationproblems is likely to accentuate this process, which would result in a decrease in average family size.
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Pence highlights matters of national wealth and the need to feed a burgeoningworldpopulation.
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Specifically, there was a persistent tendency for the proportion viewing theworldpopulationgrowth rate as serious and for the proportion considering population limitation as necessary to increase with education.
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