📚 Population

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with population on their catalogue record, first published between 1798 and 2017, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject population in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 64,911 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
1990 census of population and housing	United States. Bureau of the Census	1992	492
Annual report - vital statistics of Massachusetts. (title varies)	Massachusetts. Dept. of Public Health.	—	160
Census 1981	Office of Population Censuses and Surveys Staff Great Britain	1982	92
Population	United States. Bureau of the Census	1943	87
Census of Canada, 1966	Canada. Dominion Bureau of Statistics.	1967	55
Essay on the principle of population	Thomas Robert Malthus	1798	44
The Population Bomb	Paul R. Ehrlich	1968	34
International population census publications	Research Publications, inc	1970	30
Il populismo russo	Franco Venturi	1952	22
Ecology	Charles J. Krebs	1972	18
Population	John Robert Weeks	1978	15
An essay on population	Thomas Robert Malthus	1914	13
The Population Reference Bureau's population handbook	Arthur Haupt	1978	10
Demography	Peter R. Cox	1950	9
A Concise History of World Population	Massimo Livi-Bacci	1992	9
Géographie de la population	Jacqueline Beaujeu-Garnier	1956	8
An essay on the principle of population	Thomas Malthus	1994	8
Population and society	Dennis Hume Wrong	1961	7
Population dynamics	Maurice E. Solomon	1969	7
The law of population	Annie Wood Besant	1877	6
Population geography	Gary L. Peters	1983	6
The beak of the finch	Jonathan Weiner	1994	6
How many people can the earth support?	Joel E. Cohen	1995	6
The challenge of man's future	Harrison Scott Brown	1954	5
Population, resources, environment	Paul R. Ehrlich	1970	5
Sampling of Populations Set	Paul S. Levy	2009	4
Our Shrinking Planet	Massimo Livi Bacci	2017	4
Population geography	John Innes Clarke	1965	3
A prologue to population geography	Wilbur Zelinsky	1966	3
A geography of population	Glenn Thomas Trewartha	1969	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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