Population characteristics

The population is a set of individuals counted based on a classification criterion; this criterion can be:

1. Biological
2. Cultural
3. Demographic
4. Ethnic
5. Religious etc.

Therefore an individual can belong to different population groups, depending on the criterion with which it is measured.

1. Religious-political population
2. Population in geographical criteria
3. Population in nationality
4. Unemployed population
5. Population and social classes
6. Rural population
7. Affected population etc.

The science that studies populations is statistics and it is applied through censuses, which vary in their objective and purpose in a discretionary way.

Thus, those in charge of a census can count the populations that are members of the middle, lower or upper class.

It handles statistics that can be ranked by race (Asian, black, white, indigenous, or minority).

In an analogous way, population is called the place where a group of people usually settle, live or coexist.

Example:

1. American Population
2. French population
3. Population of patients with syphilis
4. School population

The characteristics of the population are:

Composition.- It is made up of various individuals, in relation to their compliance with the classification criteria on which the accounting or census is based.

Growth.- Populations can increase or decrease exponentially or arithmetically, depending on the parameter with which it is measured (rural population, urban population, population of childbearing age, or population with diseases terminals). These variations are also affected by factors such as migration.

Territoriality.- Populations can be established in relation to a territory, as one of the parameters with which the censuses carried out by government institutions are carried out.

In this term, the immigrant or illegal population can be considered as a floating population that is generally not considered part of the general population of the place.

Ethnic population.- The ethnic population is that population that when and