"majority of population" is an acceptable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to a large portion of a given population. For example, "A majority of the population of the United States lives in urban areas."
Of the six districts, Colombo and Kandy have the vast majority of population living in densely populated urban centres with some peri-urban zones.
Bangla script, which has nearly 400 character symbols, is used by a vast majority of population in India and Bangladesh.
In the developed countries, smartphones are no longer considered as luxury items and are owned by the majority of population.
The overwhelming majority of population movements is directed toward cities, contributing to their physical expansion and socioeconomic diversification (IOM 2015b).
However, the prohibitive prices of land in Dhaka restrict the majority of population with low and middle income to have access to land markets.
The great majority of population (94%, i.e. 36.3% of the population of Canada) and arable land in Ontario is located in the south, which contrasts with its relatively small land area in comparison to the north.
In the majority of populations, antipsychotic utilisation and especially the use of atypical antipsychotics increased over time.
Net soil biota effect was negative in the majority of populations in Europe and Asia (Fig. 2).
Therefore, a majority of population-based breast cancer risk is likely explained by low penetrance alleles with rare to common population frequencies [ 5].
The majority of population-based studies reported a positive association or correlation between SBP, DBP, and IOP [ 20, 21, 26– 28, 43– 43].
The majority of population-based screening programmes that have been introduced offer screening to women from age 50, although in Sweden some counties invite women from age 40 (Shapiro et al, 1998).
