According to WorldAtlas, Canada is the only non-European country to make its top ten list of coffee consumers. The United States at a distant 25 on the list.
POPULATION
population
(noun) the act of populating (causing to live in a place); “he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals”
population, universe
(noun) (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; “it is an estimate of the mean of the population”
population
(noun) a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area; “they hired hunters to keep down the deer population”
population
(noun) the people who inhabit a territory or state; “the population seemed to be well fed and clothed”
population
(noun) the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.); “people come and go, but the population of this town has remained approximately constant for the past decade”; “the African-American population of Salt Lake City has been increasing”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
population (plural populations)
The people living within a political or geographical boundary.
(by extension) The people with a given characteristic.
A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world.
(biology) A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area.
(statistics) A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn.
(computing) The act of filling initially empty items in a collection.
Source: Wiktionary
Pop`u*la"tion, n. Etym: [L. populatio: cf. F. population.]
1. The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.
2. The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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TEMPORIZE
(verb) draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time; “The speaker temporized in order to delay the vote”
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