demography

English

Etymology

From demo- (“people”) +‎ -graphy (“written representation of”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈmɒɡɹəfi/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi

Noun

demography (usually uncountable, plural demographies)

1. The study of the characteristics of human populations, especially with regards to their makeup and fluctuations and the social causes behind these.
2. The study of the structure and population dynamics of other lifeforms, such as mammals, insects, plants, etc.
3. 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

Synonyms

• demology

Derived terms

• biodemography
• demographic
• demosprudence
• ethnodemography
• geodemography
• paleodemography
• phylodemography
• sociodemography

 

Related terms

• demographer
• demographics

Translations

study of human populations

• Afrikaans: demografie (af)
• Albanian: demografia
• Arabic: دِيمُوغْرَافِيَا f (dimuḡrāfiyā), دِمُوغْرَافِيَا f (dimuḡrāfiyā)
• Armenian: ժողովրդագրություն (hy) (žoġovrdagrutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: demoqrafiya
• Basque: demografia (eu)
• Belarusian: дэмагра́фія f (demahráfija)
• Bengali: জনসংখ্যাতত্ত্ব (jonośoṅkhatotto)
• Bulgarian: демогра́фия f (demográfija)
• Catalan: demografia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 人口學／人口学 (zh) (rénkǒuxué)

• Czech: demografie f
• Danish: demografi (da) c
• Dutch: demografie (nl) f, bevolkingsleer m
• Esperanto: demografio
• Estonian: demograafia, rahvastikuteadus
• Finnish: väestötiede (fi), demografia (fi)
• French: démographie (fr) f
• Galician: demografía (gl) f
• Georgian: დემოგრაფია (demograpia)
• German: Demografie (de) f, Bevölkerungswissenschaft (de) f
• Greek: δημογραφία (el) f (dimografía)
• Gujarati: વસ્તીવિષયક (vastīviṣyak)
• Hebrew: דמוגרפיה (he) f (demografia)
• Hindi: जनसांख्यिकी (jansāṅkhyikī)
• Hungarian: demográfia (hu)
• Ido: demografio (io)
• Indonesian: demografi (id), kependudukan
• Irish: déimeagrafaíocht f
• Italian: demografia (it) f
• Japanese: 人口学 (ja) (じんこうがく, jinkōgaku)
• Kazakh: демография (kk) (demografiä)
• Korean: 인구통계학 (in'gutonggyehak)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: demografî (ku) f

• Latvian: demogrāfija f
• Lithuanian: demografija (lt) f
• Macedonian: демографија f (demografija)
• Malay: demografi (ms)
• Marathi: जनगणनाशास्त्र (jangaṇnāśāstra)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: demografi (no) m

  Nynorsk: demografi m

• Occitan: demografia (oc) f
• Persian: دِموگرافی (demôgrâfi)
• Polish: demografia (pl) f
• Portuguese: demografia (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਡੈਮੋਗਰਾਫ਼ੀ (ḍaimogrāfī)
• Romanian: demografie (ro) f
• Russian: демогра́фия (ru) f (demográfija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: демографија f

  Roman: demografija (sh) f

• Slovak: demografia f
• Slovene: demografija (sl) f
• Spanish: demografía (es) f
• Swedish: demografi (sv) c, befolkningslära c
• Tagalog: talasantauhan
• Thai: ประชากรศาสตร์ (th) (bprà-chaa-gɔɔ-rá-sàat)
• Turkish: demografi (tr)
• Ukrainian: демогра́фія f (demohráfija)
• Uzbek: demografiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: nhân khẩu học (vi) (人口學)
• Yiddish: דעמאָגראַפֿיע f (demografye)