de‧mog‧ra‧phy /dɪˈmɒɡrəfi $ -ˈmɑː-/ noun [uncountable]
[Date: 1800-1900; Language: French; Origin: démographie, from Greek demos 'people']
the study of human populations and the ways in which they change, for example the study of how many births, marriages and deaths happen in a particular place at a particular time
—demographer noun [countable]

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