population growth

1. 1.

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

   Broaderincrease

   Narrowerirruption

Questions about population growth

What does population growth mean?

population growth means "increase in the number of people who inhabit a territory or state".

Is population growth a common word?

population growth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.