To develop more accurate population forecasts, demographers have to know a great deal more than now about the social and economic determinants of fertility.

为了做出更准确的人口预测，人口统计学家必须比现在更多地了解生育率的社会和经济决定因素。

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Competition is usually the more severe the denser the population.

通常是人口越密集，竞争越激烈

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Rice is the staple food of more than half the world's population.

大米是世界上半数以上人口的主食。

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The number of Washingtonians grew about three percent during that period while the United States population increased more than seven percent.

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Some people in the population are more biologically vulnerable than others, and the Pimas appear to be one of those groups.

人群中有一些群体,在生物学上处于弱势,皮玛族就是其中之一

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Could I do more for the ultimate good of the slave population by holding or emancipating what I own?

我是否可以为奴隶的最终利益做的更多,是继续拥有他们,还是解放他们呢

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Lower population than otherwise means fewer members of Congress from the state and fewer electoral votes in Presidential elections, while the opposite holds true for more population.

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The last census indicated that there are about 1.1 million people in Cyprus, or just a little more population than Rhode Island ( our 43rd most populous state).

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The chart below ( click here for larger image) shows that revenues are expected to grow (because of factors such as inflation, more population, and economic expansion) by more than 7 percent each year.

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