NOUN
- a change in the relative numbers of the different groups of individuals making up a population
How To Use population shift In A Sentence
- Recent censuses have confirmed a population shift away from the Northeast and Midwest, towards the South and West.
- Even if you leave alone Americans' status as the world's worst energy gluttons, you could end U.S. dependence on foreign oil through a population shift alone.
- Redistricting exists for the purpose of reapportioning voters among political districts to account for population shifts.
- Throw in a poor mass transit system, a small and unpopular downtown, and a population shift to exurbia, and it's a wonder anyone goes to the games.
- Demographers say that the changes are as much about population shifts as about the recession and that they may signal a more long-term rearrangement of our understanding of who lives where in the region. The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post
- Maybe the only safe prediction is for unprecedented population shifts.
