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Sure, even if you had all the data on your whole population (and therefore p-values "wouldn't make sense") a regression could still tell you something useful about that population. It can for example let you estimate how strongly variable X influences variable Y (or at least how strongly they are related. Causality is a separate issue), or what value of Y we would expect for someone new in the population with a certain value of X.
@arandomthought that's very helpful, thank you so much!