Breakdown of Из-за безработицы всему населению приходится проживать в плохих условиях.
плохой
bad
в
in / to (direction)
весь
all, the whole, everything, everyone
из-за
because of; from behind
Questions & Answers about Из-за безработицы всему населению приходится проживать в плохих условиях.
The current lesson is about verb agreement with collective nouns. How does that apply to 'население' here?
It actually doesn't! The rules you are learning for collective nouns only apply when the noun is the grammatical subject in the nominative case. Here, we are using an impersonal construction. The collective noun is in the dative case (всему населению), so the verb приходится stays in its fixed 3rd-person singular form.
Could we rephrase this using a standard subject-verb construction instead of an impersonal one?
Yes. You could say всё население должно проживать... (the entire population must live...). If you do, население becomes the nominative subject, and должно (a short adjective acting as the predicate) takes the neuter singular form to agree with it. However, приходится is often preferred here because it emphasizes that external circumstances (unemployment) are forcing the situation.
Why is the verb 'проживать' used here instead of the much more common 'жить'?
Проживать is a more formal, bureaucratic, or journalistic synonym for жить (to live). It specifically means 'to reside'. You will usually see it in official contexts, news reports, or when discussing demographics, which fits perfectly in this sentence alongside terms like безработица (unemployment) and население (population).
Why use 'Из-за' for 'due to' here instead of 'Благодаря'?