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  2. Population geography - Wikipedia

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    Population geography. Satellite image of Earth at night. Population geography relates to variations in the distribution, composition, migration, and growth of populations. Population geography involves demography in a geographical perspective. [a] It focuses on the characteristics of population distributions that change in a spatial context.

  3. World population - Wikipedia

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    In world demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living. It was estimated by the United Nations to have exceeded eight billion in mid-November 2022. It took around 300,000 years of human prehistory and history for the human population to reach a billion and only 222 years more to reach 8 billion.

  4. Population density - Wikipedia

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    Population density is the number of people per unit of area, usually transcribed as "per square kilometer" or square mile, and which may include or exclude, for example, areas of water or glaciers. Commonly this is calculated for a county, city, country, another territory or the entire world . The world's population is around 8,000,000,000 [3 ...

  5. Population - Wikipedia

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    Population. Population is the term typically used to refer to the number of people in a single area. Governments conduct a census to quantify the size of a resident population within a given jurisdiction. The term is also applied to non-human animals, microorganisms, and plants, and has specific uses within such fields as ecology and genetics .

  6. Demographics of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Percent distribution of the total population by age: 1900 to 2015 Population pyramid of United States in 1950 Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce, United Nations medium variant projections.

  7. Demographics of the world - Wikipedia

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    Demographics of Earth. Population pyramid of the world in 2022 by the UN. Population. Over 8,000,000,000 (estimated) Fertility rate. 2.27 (2021) Earth has a human population of over 8 billion as of 2024, with an overall population density of 50 people per km 2 (130 per sq. mile). Nearly 60% of the world's population lives in Asia, with almost 2 ...

  8. Spatial distribution - Wikipedia

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    Spatial distribution. A spatial distribution in statistics is the arrangement of a phenomenon across the Earth's surface and a graphical display of such an arrangement is an important tool in geographical and environmental statistics. [1] A graphical display of a spatial distribution may summarize raw data directly or may reflect the outcome of ...

  9. Demographic statistics - Wikipedia

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    Demographic statistics are measures of the characteristics of, or changes to, a population. Records of births, deaths, marriages, immigration and emigration and a regular census of population provide information that is key to making sound decisions about national policy. A useful summary of such data is the population pyramid.