What is the meaning of "the inhabitants of the world"

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I wrote the following sentence as a part of one of my essays. I would really appreciate it if someone could let me know what is the exact meaning of "the inhabitants of the world". I mean, does this refer to every living creatures including humans and animals or just only humans?

Moreover, it is the touch skills that every the inhabitant of the world would have to rely on in the future.

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

inhabitant: a person or animal that lives in a particular place
— MacMillan Dictionary

CJ

AlpheccaStars · Answer

Usage examples:

The city of Landsdown has about 10,000 inhabitants.
Many of the immigrants have intermarried with the island's original inhabitants.
It was so exciting to see that our nesting box has some new inhabitants.
The zebra is an inhabitant of the semiarid grasslands of Ethiopia and northern Kenya.
You will spend most of your time searching for water if you're an inhabitant of the Gobi Dessert.
In a virtual world simulation, every inhabitant is a native of the simulated world.
As an inhabitant of inner London, I have not had a car for years and I do not miss it.
Another inhabitant of the arctic, the snowshoe hare, is well adapted to life here, too.

Anonymous · Answer

dileepaMoreover, it is the touch skills that every ~~the~~ inhabitant of the world would have to rely on in the future.

Delete "the" before "inhabitant".

On first reading that, I took it to include animals, partly because I have no idea what touch skills are and partly because animals do inhabit the earth. If this sentence had been embedded in a paragraph that made it clear we are talking about human beings only, I would have understood it that way instead.

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