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語源

From demo- (“people”) +‎ -graphy (“written representation of”) (From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “people”) and Ancient Greek -γραφία (-graphía), from γραφή (graphḗ, “writing, drawing, description”)).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /dɪˈmɒɡɹəfi/
• 韻: -ɒɡɹəfi

名詞

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

   • 2023 July 21, Michael Anton, “The Pessimistic Case for the Future”, in Compact‎, 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.

同意語

• demology

派生語

関連する語

• demographer
• demographics