population
Abbr. pop., p.
1.
2. The total number of inhabitants constituting a particular race, class, or group in a specified area.
3. The act or process of furnishing with inhabitants.
4. Ecology. All the organisms that constitute a specific group or occur in a specified habitat.
5. Statistics. The set of individuals, items, or data from which a statistical sample is taken. In this sense, also called universe.