population vs ragtag (and bobtail)

population

noun
  • A group of units (persons, objects, or other items) enumerated in a census or from which a sample is drawn. 

  • A collection of organisms of a particular species, sharing a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given area. 

  • The act of filling initially empty items in a collection. 

  • The people with a given characteristic. 

  • The people living within a political or geographical boundary. 

  • A count of the number of residents within a political or geographical boundary such as a town, a nation or the world. 

ragtag (and bobtail)

How often have the words population and ragtag (and bobtail) occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )