The correct answer is B) Population is the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or another area.
The statement that best defines the term population is "Population is the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or another area."
Population is an important data in any country because that is the way the government knows how many people the country has, the growth rate of population in order to know what kind of programs need to be launched to control natality, the average age of its population to have education programs, the people that are working to have income tax, the children in school age, and the elderly to have retirement plans.
