"large amount of population" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase any time you need to refer to a large number of people living in a certain area. For example, "The city has a large amount of population, which has caused some environmental issues."
There is a large amount of population moved from countryside to cities in China during its urbanization in the past two decades.
Vlessing predicts this type of income-restricted housing will become the norm over the next 25 years in metropolitan areas where young people make up a large amount of population growth and where house prices are out of reach.
Such observation is valid also for the areas outside the GRA where a large amount of population translates into an important request of mobility in a very dispersed area.
We detected a large amount of population structure in Amazonia, with three population clusters within Brazil and one including the Peru populations.
This may involve a large amount of population mixing, infections and antigenic stimulation, which are suggested risk factors for childhood leukaemia and lymphoma (Kinlen, 1995; Kinlen et al, 1995; Greaves, 1999; Little, 1999; Kinlen and Bramald, 2001).
Overall, there was a large amount of population structure in Amazonia, and a primary division within A. darlingi between Amazonia (genotype 1) and Central America, parts of Colombia and Venezuela (genotype 2).
Although the aim is to improve diagnosis and clinical care by expanding access to drug susceptibility testing, a large amount of population-level drug resistance data will also be generated that, if properly collected and analyzed, could be used by national TB control programs for surveillance purposes.
More specifically, this study questions the extensive use of the control region as the preferential marker for elasmobranch population genetic studies and whole mitogenome sequencing will probably uncover a large amount of cryptic population structure in future studies.
In recent years a large amount of mitochondrial population data for forensic purposes has been produced.
Other minorities who lack bumiputera status make up a large amount of the population.
A large amount of the population in Japan's biggest cities have a destructive relationship with work, literally, with many grinding themselves away to an early grave.
