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Population World's Rapid Growth Produced Social Economic Problems

Idx 1466
Keyword inhabitant
Sub Entry Number 2
Type of Sentence
Error Sentence The rapid growth of the world's inhabitants has produced serious social and economic problems.
Correct Sentence The rapid growth of the world's population has produced serious social and economic problems.
Cloze Error Sentence The rapid growth of the world's [[inhabitants]] has produced serious social and economic problems.
Cloze Sentence The rapid growth of the world's [[population]] has produced serious social and economic problems.
Cloze Answer population
Choices population | inhabitants
Explanation

To refer to all the people in the world, or all the people living in a particular country, city, town etc, use population: 'Half the world's population doesn't have enough to eat.' 'To make it profitable, about a third of the population of France will have to visit Eurodisney each year.' 'The town has a population of 15,000.'

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