They have proper population registers, they have address registers and they know where the population was at the end of last week.
The controversy arises when governments attempt to enforce a particular religious interpretation of proper Islamic dress on the population at large.
More than half of the country's population has no proper job.
Yet such legitimate concerns should not be allowed to detract from the basic progress that has occurred: in the past 20 years the share of the world's population living in proper democracies has risen from about a third to just over half.
"My challenge to central government is to do what other nations in Europe are doing and do a proper undertaking of the Roma population - not just the traveller and gypsy population, " says the former Labour Home Secretary David Blunkett, whose Sheffield constituency has had a significant rise in the Roma population.
They are nervous that news of the immolations and the grievances that led to them will inflame tensions among more than 1m Tibetans in the two prefectures. (The population in Tibet proper is three times larger.) The handful of journalists who have ventured beyond Songpan this year have been briskly caught and turned back.
About 1% of the general population suffers from OCD proper, but the number is much higher for women postpartum.
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The population of the city proper was 437, 715 at the 1 Jan. 2006 census, with 1, 102, 882 inhabitants in the metropolitan at the 1 Jan. 2006 census.
It claims the decision was based on historical statistics and without proper assessment of future risk in respect of population increases in Windsor and Slough.
The council has argued the proposals were was based on historical figures and without a proper assessment of future risks and demands of continuing population increases in Windsor and Slough.
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It's clear Lagos needs to quickly develop its overburdened infrastructure to accommodate the needs of a rapidly increasing population and provide jobs, education and proper infrastructure or risk significant social upheaval.
The state will also make sure that those sectors of the population who have limited resources will have access to proper communication and information technology.
Iran cries out for a proper welfare system, directed at those most in need: 15% of the population subsist below the poverty line, and average living standards are no higher than 20 years ago.
Mr Clayton said the Telford population is due to double in size by 2026 and the absence of a proper rail service could "stunt its growth".
About one-third of the population fled across the border to West Timor, then as now part of Indonesia proper, to escape the devastation.
Cholera thrives in areas without clean water and proper sanitation, and the United Nations has said 6 million people in Zimbabwe -- more than half the population -- have limited or no access to safe water and sanitation in rural and urban areas.
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