POPULATION GROWTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does population growth mean? 

• POPULATION GROWTH (noun)
  The noun POPULATION GROWTH has 1 sense:

1. increase in the number of people who inhabit a territory or state

  Familiarity information: POPULATION GROWTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POPULATION GROWTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Increase in the number of people who inhabit a territory or state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("population growth" is a kind of...):

growth; increase; increment (a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "population growth"):

irruption (a sudden sharp increase in the relative numbers of a population)

 Context examples 

But the population growth trend is not affecting all European countries.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)

Whatever the reason, he says, the ancient Puebloans show that population growth has clear consequences.

(Scientists chart a baby boom in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D., NSF)

World population growth and lifestyle are the main causes of the increase in the volume of wastewater.

(Scientists validate a new technology that transforms sewage sludge into fertilizer more efficiently, University of Granada)

They looked at records of weather-related events in those countries for a 30-year stretch and compared them with projections for population growth and future weather disasters.

(Study: Climate Change Will Bring 50-Fold Rise in Europe Weather-related Deaths, VOA News)

However, 2007-2009 figures show a gradual recovery and the crisis may have helped population growth rates in these countries.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)

Annual population change and population growth rates were derived from Eurostat yearly population data.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)

Spain's best years in terms of population growth over the last decade were 1999, (when PGR rose from 0.41% to 0.62%), 2000 (from 0.62% to 1.07%) and 2002 (from 1.2% to 1.71%).

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)

The trend changed in some countries when the crisis got deeper, but population growth remained solid in others.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)

Not to mention Turkey, where the population growth rate jumped from -3.9% in 2006-2007 to +1.29% in 2007-2008.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)

Countries like Romania, Poland and Bulgaria experienced massive workforce migration to Western European countries and they are showing negative population growth rates over most of the last decade.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)