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This class comprises a defined set of persons who are considered to together form a coherent, identifiable unit according to certain characteristics such as citizenry, religious affiliation or other uniting characteristics or properties. Instances of population may be emically or etically defined. The substance of population is a collectivity of people[.]

Instances of population existence natural population come into and go out of existence through natural and social processes the particular details of which are often difficult to know or the subject of research and investigation. If a population is declaratively defined such as 'male voters between the age of 20 and 30 in Alabama in 2024 election cycle', then the existence condition is relative to the de jure declaration of their composition. An instance of population can be identified to be in existence when a suitable collective of individuals matching to its description can be identified to live and conform to those characteristics

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