Initially many individual solutions are randomly generated to form an initial population.

The new municipality had an initial population of 6,962.

The initial population would be about 226,000 Jews and 54,400 Arabs.

The initial population would be 8,900 Jews and 441,100 Arabs.

The initial population of the city was around 250.

From an estimated initial population of 250,000 in 1492, 14,000 Arawaks were left by 1517.

The initial population of the prison was close to 600 inmates, both male and female.

Therefore some kind of initial population must be created to get things started.

After a year, approximately 20% of the initial population has "survived".

With r between 0 and 1, the population will eventually die, independent of the initial population.