The bulk of the population originates from immigrants who came to the island since the colonial times, mainly of Bengali, Hindustani and Tamil backgrounds.

Ovid, on the other hand, supposes that the island was not uninhabited at the time of the birth of Aeacus, and states that, in the reign of Aeacus, Hera, jealous of Aegina, ravaged the island bearing the name of the latter by sending a plague or a fearful dragon into it, by which nearly all its inhabitants were carried off, and that Zeus restored the population by changing the ants into men.

There are over 30 Dayak sub-ethnic groups living in Borneo, making the population of this island one of the most varied of human social groups.

The island then was not the popular tourist destination it later became ; the author George Woodbury described it as " no city of homes ; it was a place of temporary sojourn and refreshment for a literally floating population ," continuing, " The only permanent residents were the piratical camp followers, the traders, and the hangers-on ; all others were transient.

Saumarez's convoy of prizes stopped first at Malta, where Saumarez provided assistance to a rebellion on the island among the Maltese population.

Introduction of pigs by guano miners at the beginning of the 20th century reduced the crab population on the island, which in turn allowed grassland to gradually cover about 80 percent of the land surface ( Sachet, 1962 ).

The local Indian population left their mark also on the language with some 400 Taíno terms and place-names of the island.

Cyprus: population growth 1961-2003 ( numbers for the entire island, excluding in recent years some 150, 000 Turkish immigrants residing in Northern Cyprus ).

Population density figures conceal a great disparity between the republic's most crowded island, Nzwani, which had a density of 470 persons per square kilometer in 1991 ; Ngazidja, which had a density of 250 persons per square kilometer in 1991 ; and Mwali, where the 1991 population density figure was 120 persons per square kilometer.

By comparison, estimates of the population density per square kilometer of the Indian Ocean's other island microstates ranged from 241 ( Seychelles ) to 690 ( Maldives ) in 1993.

A comprehensive Chinese-assisted treatment campaign has apparently eliminated malaria from the Comorian island of Moheli ( population 36, 000 ).

Crete is the most populous island in Greece with a population of more than 500, 000 people.

The Cook Islands was not the only island group visited by the traders, but Penrhyn Atoll was their first port of call and it has been estimated that three-quarters of the population was taken to Callao, Peru.

The January 2007 estimated population of the island was 281, 000, while the figure for the March 1999 census, when most of the studies – though not the linguistic survey work referenced in this article – were performed, was about 261, 000 ( see under Corsica ).

The 2001 population of 341, 000 speakers on the island given by Ethnologue exceeds either census.

As the population of the Maldives is separated across around 200 inhabited islands, there is a cable TV operator for nearly every island.

It is the fourth largest island in the Caribbean with a population of people mainly from African descent.

Dominica is the only island in the eastern Caribbean to retain some of its pre-Columbian population — the Carib Indians — about 3, 000 of whom live on the island's east coast.

Home to a diverse population hailing from across the Japanese archipelago the island witnessed the birth of a unique culture with the drum at the center of it all.

The Greek island of Syros, whose population is divided almost equally between Catholics and Orthodox, is one of the few places where the two Churches share a common date for Easter, with the Catholics accepting the Orthodox date-a practice helping considerably in maintaining good relations between the two communities.

The island has been identified as an Important Bird Area ( IBA ) by BirdLife International because it supports a large and diverse population of breeding seabirds and other waterbirds.

An example of an introductory population model describes a closed population, such as on an island, where immigration and emigration does not take place.

In these island models, the rate of population change is described by:

The Keystone Broadcasting System's Negro network includes 360 affiliated stations, whose signals reach more than half the total U.S. Negro population.

A population or species of organisms typically includes multiple alleles at each locus among various individuals.

The Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area ( MSA ) includes all of Washtenaw County, which had a population of 344, 791 as of 2010.

Its 2002 / 2003 / 2004 funding includes around $ 10 million for economic development, up to $ 5 million for the development of democratic institutions, about $ 5 million for the return of population affected by war and between 2 and 3 million dollars for the " mitigation of adverse social conditions and trends ".

Approximately 75 % of the island's population is located in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality ( CBRM ) which includes all of Cape Breton County and is often referred to as Industrial Cape Breton, given the history of coal mining and steel manufacturing in this area.

The population of the county at large, which includes Dublin city, was 1, 270, 603 according to the census of 2011.

The municipality ( ville de Genève ) has a population () of, and the canton ( République et Canton de Genève, which includes the city ) has residents.

During these years policies were put in place which led to the rapid transformation of Malaysia ’ s economy and society, such as the controversial New Economic Policy, which was intended to increase proportionally the share of the economic " pie " of the bumiputras (" indigenous people ", which includes the majority Malays, but not always the indigenous population ) as compared to other ethnic groups — was launched by Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak.

The Jamaican Government has, since the late 1990s and in cooperation with private investors, embarked on a campaign of infrastructural improvement projects, one of which includes the creation of a system of freeways, the first such access-controlled roadways of their kind on the island, connecting the main population centres of the island.

Besides the main island, the bailiwick includes other islets and reefs with no permanent population: Les Écréhous, Les Minquiers, Les Pierres de Lecq, Les Dirouilles.

It is the principal city of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Jackson County and has a population of 160, 248.

That endeavor left the newly independent Republic of Kazakhstan a mixed legacy: a population that includes nearly as many Russians as Kazakhs ; the presence of a dominating class of Russian technocrats, who are necessary to economic progress but ethnically unassimilated ; and a well-developed energy industry, based mainly on coal and oil, whose efficiency is inhibited by major infrastructural deficiencies.

Kenya has a very diverse population that includes most major ethnic, racial and linguistic groups found in Africa.

85 % of Kuwait's population is Muslim ( Sunni 70 %, Shi ' a 30 %) and the rest belong to other religions ( includes Christian, Hindu, Parsi ).

The wider Kabul province, which also includes rural areas, has a population of around 3. 7 million people.

The urban area of the city, although most of it contained within the Larissa municipality, also includes the communities of Giannouli, Platykampos, Nikaia, Terpsithea and several other suburban settlements, which bring the wider urban area population of the city to about 220, 000 inhabitants.

The population of its Metropolitan Statistical Area ( MSA ) was 464, 036, while the even larger Combined Statistical Area ( CSA ) population, which includes Shiawassee County, was 534, 684.

The largest concentrations of population are in North P ' yŏngan and South P ' yŏngan provinces, in the municipal district of P ' yongyang, and in South Hamgyŏng Province, which includes the Hamhŭng-Hŭngnam urban area.

Transportation in Puerto Rico includes a system of roads, highways, freeways, airports, ports and harbors, and railway systems, serving a population of approximately 4 million inhabitants year-round.

The Nuova Cronica, a 14th century history of Florence by the Florentine banker and official Giovanni Villani, includes much statistical information on population, ordinances, commerce and trade, education, and religious facilities and has been described as the first introduction of statistics as a positive element in history.

This population also includes a small segment within it that is mixed with any number of these ancestries.

Its population includes a two-thirds majority of Alemannic German speakers and a one-quarter Latin minority ( French, Italian and Romansh ), see linguistic geography of Switzerland.

Collected data includes population data ( citizenship, place of residence, place of birth, position in household, number of children, religion, languages, education, profession, place of work, etc.

Syria's population is 71 % Sunni Muslim ( includes most Arabs and Kurds, and 16 % other Muslim groups ( including 11. 0 % Alawi, Shi ' a Muslims ( 1. 1 % Imami / Twelvers and 1. 0 % Ismailis / Seveners ), 3. 2 % Druze, 1. 3 % Nusairism, 0. 7 Alevism ( all Turkomans ), Yezidism 0. 2 %) and 10 % Christian, with a Syrian Jewish community of a few dozen.