The phrase "a drift of population" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a gradual movement or change in the population of a specific area or demographic over time.
Example: "The city has experienced a drift of population towards the suburbs in recent years."
Alternatives: "a shift in population" or "a movement of population".
Labour seats have, on average, 6,000 fewer electors than Tory ones because of the long-term drift of population from the cities to the shire counties and the leafy suburbs.
Labour constituencies have on average 6,000 fewer electors than Tory ones because of the long-term drift of population from the cities to the suburbs and the shire counties.
At the time the city was a small oasis in the Nevada desert with a drifting population of mobsters, grifters, gamblers, pimps and hookers and a growing reputation for hedonism.
The assignment of individuals to pre-defined sampling regions showed a clear drift of Retinta goat population, although it is also detected a certain degree of genetic flow (immigrant and admixed animals) among the sampled herds located in these regions.
This model contrasts sharply with conventional population genetic models in which the existence of a large number of neutral mutations would lead to genetic drift of the population and the individual is the unit of selection rather than a cloud of related variants [ 11].
As this is materially impossible in finite populations, this delocalization should be interpreted as the drift of the population over the sequence space [ 8].
Scaling F by r reduces the amount of drift of current populations from the ancestral population; thus, structure is difficult to resolve when r is close to 0, while structure is easy to resolve when r is close to 1.
We further use computer simulations to show that limited imprecision of adaptation has little effect on the rate of chemotactic drift of a bacterial population in gradients, but hinders precise accumulation at the peak of the gradient.
Realizing the northward drift of business and population, Mr. Ochs resolved to build in what is now known as Times Square, then a decidedly second-rate neighborhood.
This increment is due to an augmentation of bias speed component of the mean squared speed, that is, the drift of the cell population migrating on the anisotropic surface provided by the RGD gradient.
