demography

UK/dɪˈmɒɡɹəfi/

nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speech — demo sits at #4,558Too rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Demography is the study of populations and how they change. Study demography.

It is the least fashionable and most predictive social science there is. Demography can tell you the size of a school intake seventeen years before it happens.

Definitions of demography

1noundemographyThe study of populations and how they change.C1
“Demography explained the whole housing argument in one graph.”

demography is a study.

Where it comes from

Greek demos, the people, plus graphia, writing or description.

Ancient Greek
δῆμος — people
English, today
demography

Built from

γραφή · Ancient Greek — writing, drawing, description

From demo + graphy (From Ancient Greek δῆμος (“people”) and -γραφία, from γραφή (“writing, drawing, description”)).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

demography in the wild

Educational institutions usually treat demography as a field of sociology, although independent demography departments do exist.
Demography
Medieval demography is the study of human demography in Europe and the Mediterranean during the Middle Ages.
Medieval demography
Some current and past factors in European demography have included emigration, ethnic relations, economic immigration, a declining birth rate and an ageing population.
Demographics of Europe
Demographic economics or population economics is the application of economic analysis to demography, the study of human populations, including size, growth, density, distribution, and vital statistics.
Demographic economics

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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