A population, in statistics and other areas of mathematics, is a discrete group of people,

animals or things that can be identified by at least one common characteristic for the
purposes of data collection and analysis.

To gather information about a large population, data is usually gathered from a sample. For
example, if market researchers wanted to get representative numbers for Millennial mobile
phone users in New York City (the population) who had no landline telephone, they might
randomly query a small percentage of subscribers to major carrier services within the city
that were born between 1980 and 2004.

Although the researchers would not have a precise number, as long as the sample is large
enough and the study adequately controlled, they should have a number that gives them a
fairly good idea of the prevalence of fixed-mobile substitution among that demographic.

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1. the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or

area.
2. the body of inhabitants of a place: The population of the city opposes the
addition of fluorides to the drinking water.
3. the number or body of inhabitants of a particular race or class in a
place: the native population; the working-class population.
4. Statistics. any finite or infinite aggregation of individuals, not necessarily
animate, subject to a statistical study.
5. Ecology.
0. the assemblage of a specific type of organism living in a given
area.
a. all the individuals of one species in a given area.
6. the act or process of populating: Population of the interior was hampered
by dense jungles.