Population count may refer to:
- A census, the process of obtaining information about every member of a population (not necessarily a human population)
- Hamming weight, the number of non-zero entries ('1' bits) in a byte, string, word, array or other similar data structure
Famous quotes containing the words population and/or count:
“We in the West do not refrain from childbirth because we are concerned about the population explosion or because we feel we cannot afford children, but because we do not like children.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)
“The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)