population density
noun
the number of people, or members of a particular plant or animal species, living in a specified unit of area: a measure of how crowded or spread out inhabitants are.
population densities
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pluralof population density.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The most effective strategy involved sterilizing about 22% of adult female koalas each year in areas with the highest population densities rather than applying the approach across the entire region.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 8, 2026
Areas with relatively high - but not the highest - population densities are also set to fare well, it estimates, including outer London boroughs and councils in Blackpool, Nottingham and Slough.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2025
In fact, in the places where kelp forests were most healthy, otter population densities were at their highest.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2024
They lived in small, nomadic groups with low population densities and endured frequent local extinctions, which produced much lower levels of genetic diversity than we see in living humans.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 17, 2023
In their subsistence modes, Polynesians ranged from the hunter-gatherers of the Chathams, through slash-and-burn farmers, to practitioners of intensive food production living at some of the highest population densities of any human societies.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
