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noun

demography

CEFR C1

the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations

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Six example sentences with demography, each labelled with its topic.

  • Her economics degree included two terms of demography, where she learned to read birth rates, migration flows and aging curves.

    Economics

  • Historians borrowed from demography to estimate how many families lived in the walled city before the census of 1801.

    History

  • Campaign strategists lean on demography, studying which age groups are growing in each district before they choose a message.

    Politics

  • The retail chain hired a graduate in demography to forecast which suburbs would have young families by the decade's end.

    Business

  • Pension funds lean on demography, since how long retirees live decides whether the money set aside today will be enough.

    Finance

  • Planners combined demography with rainfall records to estimate how much water the growing city would need by 2050.

    Environment

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