population shift

1. 1.

   a change in the relative numbers of the different groups of individuals making up a population

   Broadertransformation

Questions about population shift

What does population shift mean?

population shift means "a change in the relative numbers of the different groups of individuals making up a population".

Is population shift a common word?

population shift 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.