The phrase "a scattered population" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a group of people who are dispersed over a wide area rather than being concentrated in one location.
Example: "The country has a scattered population, making it challenging to provide services to all residents effectively."
Alternatives: "a dispersed population" or "a fragmented population".
But with a scattered population, it represents only 2.2% of the total electorate.
In Australia, the government is looking to nurture industries that arise from its harsh climate and a scattered population.
"But Yiddish was the warm, wonderful language of the Jewish home and the street that united a scattered population for 20 years".
In Gloucestershire, where a scattered population depends heavily on small libraries, the Conservative leader, Mark Hawthorne, has constructed a model of democratic destruction.
This would be especially true in Nakchu Prefecture, where a scattered population, primitive roads, and a livestock-based economy would require significant modification to a program designed to make small loans to recipients who lived and worked in close proximity.
We are operating on the basis of one school per parish – a parish is five villages [a village in Africa can cover a large area with a scattered population of thousands].
"The alternatives to the employment of the air arm in backward countries of poor communications and with a wide scattered population are, first, an occupation by ground forces so complete as to put out of the mind of disaffected elements any hope or temptation to resist government authority.
I love being in this part of the world where a scant and scattered population makes an odyssey out of work-a-day services such as trains, post and doctors.
For a nation that had a small, widely scattered population (4,000,000 in 1823 and 14,333,915 in 1890), the immigration of more than 1,380,000 Europeans had a tremendous effect upon the country's ethnic composition.
The strength of the royal government was in inverse proportion to the weakness of a small and scattered population.
The main characteristic of obstetric service in northern Norway was many delivery units serving a small and scattered population.
