As these 168 individuals increased the small colonial population by 7%, they strongly influenced the developing society and culture, adding a level of renewed Africanization.

Under French rule the Opera House had primarily been for the colonial population.

But 90% of the colonial population lived outside the cities, with the effective result being that the Congress controlled 80-90% of the population.

With high birth rates, low death rates, and steady settlement, the colonial population grew rapidly.

France needed wives for the men it had sent overseas, if its colonial population were to grow.

By the mid-18th century, approximately 10% of the colonial American population spoke German.

In no part of Oceania do the inhabitants have the feeling that they are a colonial population ruled from a distant capital.

By the early 1700s enslaved Africans made up a growing percentage of the colonial population.

The attacks wiped out billions of humans, nearly the entire colonial population.

The reforms achieved their goal but created hostility among most of the colonial population and eroded loyalty to the Spanish crown.