People who live near it have little latitude (7)
I believe the answer is:
equator
'latitude' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'people who live near it have little' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'near' could be 'to' (to can mean near or close to) and 'to' is located in the answer.
'it' could be 'e' ('e' can mean 'electronic' which is similar to 'IT') and 'e' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for equator that I've seen before include "Line of zero latitude" , "Line around earth equidistant from poles" , "Imaginary circle round the earth" , "What map line may represent" , "Line circling the earth" .)