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  2. 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.

  3. World population - Wikipedia

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    In world demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently alive. 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 218 years more to reach 8 billion.

  4. List of countries by population (United Nations) - Wikipedia

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    Statistical subregions as defined by the United Nations Statistics Division [1]. This is a list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects.

  5. Demography - Wikipedia

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    The Demography of the World Population from 1950 to 2100. Data source: United Nations — World Population Prospects 2017. Demography (from Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos) 'people, society' and -γραφία (-graphía) 'writing, drawing, description') [1] is the statistical study of human populations: their size, composition (e.g., ethnic group, age), and how they change through the ...

  6. Population growth - Wikipedia

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    Population growth is the increase in the number of people in a population or dispersed group. Actual global human population growth amounts to around 83 million annually, or 1.1% per year. [2] The global population has grown from 1 billion in 1800 to 8.1 billion in 2024. [3] The UN projected population to keep growing, and estimates have put ...

  7. Coeur d'Alene, Idaho - Wikipedia

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    Coeur d'Alene (/ ˌkɔːr dəˈleɪn / ⓘ KOR də-LAYN; [6][7][8] French: Cœur d'Alène, lit. 'Heart of an Awl ' French pronunciation: [kœʁ d a.lɛn]) is a city and the county seat of Kootenai County, Idaho, United States. It is the most populous city in North Idaho and the principal city of the Coeur d'Alene Metropolitan Statistical Area.

  8. Honolulu - Wikipedia

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    Honolulu (/ ˌ h ɒ n ə ˈ l uː l uː / HON-ə-LOO-loo; [7] Hawaiian:) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean.An unincorporated city, it is the county seat of the consolidated City and County of Honolulu, situated along the southeast coast of the island of Oʻahu, [a] and is the westernmost and southernmost major U.S. city. Honolulu ...

  9. Connecticut - Wikipedia

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    Website. portal.ct.gov. Connecticut (/ kəˈnɛtɪkət / ⓘ kə-NET-ik-ət) [ 10 ] is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its capital is Hartford, and its most populous city ...