demography
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Etymology
[edit]From demo- (“people”) + -graphy (“written representation of”) (From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “people”) and Ancient Greek -γραφία (-graphía), from γραφή (graphḗ, “writing, drawing, description”)).
Pronunciation
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[edit]demography (usually uncountable, plural demographies)
- The study of the characteristics of human populations, especially with regards to their makeup and fluctuations and the social causes behind these.
- The study of the structure and population dynamics of other lifeforms, such as mammals, insects, plants, etc.
- The particular demographic makeup of a population.
- 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other, Penguin Books (2020), page 297:
- the schoolʼs demography began to change with the immigrants and their offspring pouring in
- 2023 July 21, Michael Anton, “The Pessimistic Case for the Future”, in Compact[1], archived from the original on 26 March 2024:
- Above all, it is in the process of transforming itself so fundamentally through demography that, in a few decades at most, it will no longer make sense to call this the same society.
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[edit]study of human populations
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