Meanings of industrious population in English

This was a peaceful land, fertile enough to support a small industrious population.

A sparsely-populated country does not become more productive if it destroys its most industrious population.

Here prospered a teeming and industrious population.

An industrious population would have made a paradise of this country, but the Unyoro people are the laziest that I have ever seen.

Then we have room for an industrious population on our wide plains, cities are waiting to spring up, a new nation is being born.

The second condition of national greatness is an intelligent and industrious population, willing to abide by the law, and devoted to the building of homes.

Through him the greater part of the industrious population of Nyffee had either been killed, sold as slaves, or had fled from their native country.