Is "people" redundant?

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Tan Elaine

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The world population is about 7.3 billion people.

Is "people" redundant? Thanks.
 

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It's logically redundant because "population" is generally understood to mean "human population". If you're talking about the population of some other species, you have to name it.
 
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