population size

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Glassdoor and Redfin’s report, which broke out metro areas by population size, ranked New Orleans, Palm Bay, Fla., and Wichita, Kan., as the top midsize metro areas for new grads.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026

Demographer He said if China's fertility rate of around 1.0 persists in the long term, the most obvious consequences will be a continued decline in population size and rapid population ageing.

From Barron's • Jan. 5, 2026

Lund University research published in 2022 found there has been a steeper increase in the number of patents in relation to its population size compared to Sweden's other major regions, Gothenburg and Stockholm.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2025

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the Antarctic blue whale, the world's largest animal, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300.

From Science Daily • Nov. 15, 2024

As regards population size, chiefdoms were considerably larger than tribes, ranging from several thousand to several tens of thousands of people.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond