brown

en-verb

brown (third-person singular simple present browns, present participle browning, simple past and past participle browned)

browns (present singular third-person)
browning (participle present)
browned (participle past)
browned (past)

From Middle English broun, from Old English brūn (“brown; dark; dusky”), from Proto-West Germanic *brūn, from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-. Doublet of bruin.
Cognates
* Dutch bruin
* German braun
* Ancient Greek φρύνη (phrúnē), φρῦνος (phrûnos, “toad”)
* Latin brunneus (“brown”)
* Lithuanian bė́ras (“brown”)
* Sanskrit बभ्रु (babhrú, “reddish-brown”)
* West Frisian brún

cog

the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

the browning of America

(demography, transitive, intransitive, slang, ethnic slur, usually derogatory, offensive) To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.


young

en-verb

young (third-person singular simple present youngs, present participle younging, simple past and past participle younged)

youngs (present singular third-person)
younging (participle present)
younged (participle past)
younged (past)

Inherited from Middle English yong, yonge, from Old English ġeong, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuHn̥ḱós, from *h₂yuh₁en- (“young”).

The aging (or younging) of a population refers to the fact that a population, as a unit of observation, is getting older (or younger).

1993, Jacob S. Siegel, A Generation of Change, page 5:

(informal or demography) To become or seem to become younger.

Medicare data was "younged" by a month to achieve conformity with the conventional completed ages recorded in the census.

1984, US Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, page 74:

(informal or demography) To cause to appear younger.


gray

gray (third-person singular simple present grays, present participle graying, simple past and past participle grayed)

grays (present singular third-person)
graying (participle present)
grayed (participle past)
grayed (past)
grey (alternative)

From Middle English gray, from Old English grǣġ, from Proto-West Germanic *grāu, from Proto-Germanic *grēwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁- (“to green, to grow”).
See also Dutch grauw, German grau, Old Norse grár); also Latin rāvus (“grey”), Old Church Slavonic зьрѭ (zĭrjǫ, “to see, to glance”), Russian зреть (zretʹ, “to watch, to look at”) (archaic), Lithuanian žeriù (“to shine”).

cog

the graying of America

It’s not what advocates of retrofitting the suburbs may have had in mind, but it’s a logical outcome of the graying of America, and of suburbia in particular.

2018 September 18, Amanda Kolson Hurley, “Fake Public Squares Are Coming to the Suburbs”, in The Atlantic:

(demography, slang) To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region)


millennial

The adjective is a learned borrowing from Late Latin mīllennium (“millennium”) + English -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives; and forming nouns). The English word may be analysed as millennium + -al or milli- (prefix meaning ‘thousand’) + -ennial (suffix meaning ‘years’).
Sense 5 (“of or relating to, or characteristic of, people born in the last two decades of the 20th century”) was coined by the American authors William Strauss (1947–2007) and Neil Howe (born 1951) in their book Generations (1991): see the quotations.
The noun is derived from the adjective.

coinage

Michael Dimock (2019 January 17) “Defining generations: Where Millennials end and Generation Z begins”, in Pew Research Center, archived from the original on 2020-06-01.

semiannual · annual · biennial · triennial · quadrennial · quinquennial

quintennial · sextennial · septennial · octennial · novennial · decennary

decennial · sesquidecennial · centennial · sesquicentennial · bicentennial · tricentennial · quadricentennial · bimillennial · trimillennial · quadrimillennial · decamillennial

the millennial generation

He was suffering from a typical millennial problem: Which is the correct emoji to use?

Boomers played cassettes in their cars and popularized FM radio. Thirteeners love their compact disks. Today's electronics industry is abuzz with talk of the new digital technology that awaits Millennial teenagers.

1991, William Strauss, Neil Howe, “The Past as Prologue”, in Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, part III (The Future), page 352:

When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single "Boyfriend" was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended, Believe, as Justin Bieber's Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts.

2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2023-04-05:

Many people, or at least a handful of very loud people, hate to being dubbed Millennial. They see it as derogatory.

2015 August 24, Samantha Sharf, “What is a ‘Millennial’ Anyway? Meet the Man who Coined the Phrase”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-29:

But, while many have jumped to label the astrology boom as another millennial trend, that may not actually be the case.

2018 March 22, Wilder Davies, “Mercury Is Entering Retrograde Again. This Is Why So Many People Care”, in Time:

We make hits / Two broke millennial men / And we'd do it again

2024, “We Make Hits”, in James Smith (lyrics), Where's My Utopia?, performed by Yard Act:

(by extension, originally US, demography) Often capitalized: of or relating to, or characteristic of, people born in the last two decades of the 20th century from around the early 1980s to the mid 1990s (with 1996 births cited as the last Millennial year), and who reached adulthood early in the third millennium C.E.


millennial

millennials (plural)
Millennial (alternative)

Someday, Boomers hope, Millennials will build according to great ideals their parents can only envision, act on vital issues their parents can only ponder.

1991, William Strauss, Neil Howe, “The Millennial Cycle”, in Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, part III (The Future), page 342:

Meet the Millennials, born in or after 1982—the "Babies on Board" of the early [Ronald] Reagan years, the "Have You Hugged Your Child Today?" sixth graders of the early [Bill] Clinton years, the teens of Columbine, and, this year, the much-touted high school Class of 2000, now invading the nation's campuses.

2000 September, Neil Howe, William Strauss, “The Next Great Generation”, in Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 4:

When we saw Millennials as kids being raised so differently, we could already make an easy prediction. We had seen this dark to bright contrast in child upbringing before many times in American history, so we already foresaw that by the time you got to 2000 you would see huge changes in people in their late teens and early 20s.

2015 August 24, Samantha Sharf, quoting Neil Howe, “What is a ‘Millennial’ Anyway? Meet the Man who Coined the Phrase”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-29:

In a bumper for a newsmagazine program, a reporter muses: “[It’s] the year of the yuppie, but what is a yuppie?” That’s right, fellow millennials: Not long ago, young people had so much economic opportunity that their generation was defined by its upward mobility.

2020 June 25, Eve Peyser, “In vintage TV ads, a curious fountain of hope (and cheese)”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-20:

(originally US, demography) Often capitalized: a person from the generation born in the last two decades of the 20th century, from around the early 1980s to the mid-1990s and who reached adulthood early in the third millennium C.E., characterized by their familiarity with computer technology and poorer financial prospects than their parents.


fecundity

en-noun

fecundity (usually uncountable, plural fecundities)

fecundities (plural)
fœcundity (alternative)

From Latin fēcunditās (“fruitfulness, fertility”), from fēcundus, equivalent to fecund + -ity.

плодовитост

rate or capacity of offspring production

In the early days the reviewers compared him to the late Douglas Adams, but then Terry went on to write books as enthusiastically as Douglas avoided writing them, and now, if there is any comparison to be made of anything from the formal rules of a Pratchett novel to the sheer prolific fecundity of the man, it might be to P. G. Wodehouse.

2006, Neil Gaiman, “Neil Gaiman on Terry Pratchett”, in Good Omens, Corgi, page 410:

[I]t would not be very much less absurd for someone to write about New York City after having spent only a few years or a few decades in this metropolis of inexhaustible adventure, of terrifying emotional fecundity, of uncapturable character.

1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 52:

The soil spawned humanity, as it bred frogs in the Rains, and the gap of the sickness of one season was filled to overflowing by the fecundity of the next.

1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 29:

Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production.

Rate of production of young by a female.


mortality

en-noun

mortality (countable and uncountable, plural mortalities)

From Old French mortalite, from Latin mortālitās, from mortālis (“relating to death”), from mors (“death”); equivalent to mortal + -ity.

In foundling hospitals, and among the children brought up by parish charities the mortality is still greater than among those of the common people.

1776 March 9, Adam Smith, chapter VIII, in An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. […], volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, book I (Of the Causes of Improvement in the Productive Powers of Labour, […]), page 97:

Some of the objects of enquiry would be […] what was the comparative mortality among the children of the most distressed part of the community, and those who lived rather more at their ease […]

1798, Thomas Malthus, chapter 2, in An Essay on the Principle of Population, London: J. Johnson, pages 32–33:

And, even in peace and at home, what was the sanitary condition of the Army? The mortality in the barracks was, she found, nearly double the mortality in civil life.

1918 May 9, Lytton Strachey, “[Florence Nightingale.] Chapter X”, in Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon (Library of English Literature; LEL 11347), London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 146:

[…] a drought year brought conditions especially favorable to the beetle and the mortality of elms went up 1000 per cent.

1962, Rachel Carson, chapter 8, in Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 114:

By studying mortality rates and pollution statistics in 90 Chinese cities, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Israel and China discovered that air pollution from burning coal in north China, defined as above the Huai River, with a population of around 500 million people, was 55% higher than in the south.

2013 July 9, Calum MacLeod, “In China, air pollution report brings despair, humor”, in USA Today, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-07-10:

The number of deaths; and, usually and especially, the number of deaths per time unit (usually per year), expressed as a rate.

(biology, ecology, demography, insurance) The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.


morbidity

morbidity (countable and uncountable, plural morbidities)

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Recorded since 1721; from morbid + -ity, from Latin morbidus (“diseased”), from morbus (“disease”), from the root of morī (“to die”) or from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to rub, pound, wear away”).

xəstəlik

quality of being unhealthful or diseased

(demography, insurance) The sickness rate of a population.


demographic

en-adj

demographic (comparative more demographic, superlative most demographic)

more demographic (comparative)
most demographic (superlative)

/ˌdɛm.əˈɡɹæf.ɪk/

Yet it does bring up a much more real problem about China's demographic transition, which has led some to argue that China will "get old before it gets rich."

2011 February 18, James Fallows, “How to Solve China's Gender Imbalance? The 'Babe Tax'”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 2011-02-23:


MSA

en-noun

MSA (countable and uncountable, plural MSAs)

metropolitan statistical area
w:metropolitan statistical area

(US, demography) Initialism of metropolitan statistical area.


demographer

/dɪˈmɒɡɹəfə(ɹ)/


baby boom

(demography) A period marked by a signifiant increase in the birth rate.


natality

natality (countable and uncountable, plural natalities)

From French natalité. Philosophical usage introduced by Hannah Arendt.

(demography) The ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year.


birthrate

birthrates (plural)
birth rate (alternative)

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The ratio of total live births to total population for a specific community or nation in a specified period; often expressed in births per thousand per year


overpopulation

overpopulation (countable and uncountable, plural overpopulations)

/ˌəʊvəˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃn̩/

From over- (prefix meaning ‘excessive; excessively’) + population.

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I hope for another end, though not, indeed, from any of the three remedies for over-population commonly suggested by economists. These three are, in brief—Colonization; Bringing in of waste lands; or Discouragement of Marriage.

1860 August–December, John Ruskin, “Essay I. The Roots of Honour.”, in “Unto This Last:” Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1862, →OCLC, page 162:

Over the whole extent of the South Seas, from one tropic to another, we find traces of a bygone state of over-population, when the resources of even a tropical soil were taxed, and even the improvident Polynesian trembled for the future.

1891 February–December, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Depopulation”, in In the South Seas […], New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1896, →OCLC, part I (The Marquesas), page 37:

When it comes to overpopulation as the cause of wildlife loss in Africa, Prince William just won't let it go.

2021 November 26, Eliza Anyangwe, “Prince William's overpopulation remarks will do women no favors”, in CNN:

(biology, demography) An excessive number of occupants (people, animals, plants, etc.) in a particular area; specifically, when the number of occupants exceeds the ability of that area to provide for them.

mbipopullim

excessive number of occupants in a particular area; specifically, when the number of occupants exceeds the ability of that area to provide for them


age distribution

en-noun

age distribution (plural age distributions)

(statistics) The number of people in stated age ranges.

年齡分佈 /年龄分布

the number of people in stated age ranges


microgeneration

microgeneration (countable and uncountable, plural microgenerations)

microgenerations (plural)
micro-generation (alternative)

The elderly are market segments, by generations or microgenerations within age cohorts or by historical experience as personality types.

2002, Merry White, Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval, page 169:

(countable, demography) A demographic or cohort similar to a generation but covering a shorter timespan.


death rate

death rates (plural)
deathrate (alternative)

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fertility rate

In America the fertility rate of recent immigrants tends to be higher than that of native population.

In most industrialized countries the fertility rate has dropped well below replacement rate.

The average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if she followed the current average pattern of fertility among a given group of women and survived through her reproductive years; used as an indicator of strength of population growth.


subreplacement

The other is the fact that the population of Japan has begun to shrink, the result of years of subreplacement birth rates.

2011, James W. White, Mirrors of Memory: Culture, Politics, and Time in Paris and Tokyo, University of Virginia Press, →ISBN, page 219:

(demography, of a birth rate) Below the level needed to maintain the current population.


crude birth rate

crude birth rate (plural crude birth rates)

(demography) Number of childbirths in a society per 1,000 people per year


crude death rate

crude death rate (plural crude death rates)

(demography) Number of deaths in a society per 1,000 people per year


natural increase rate

natural increase rate (plural natural increase rates)

(demography) The difference between the crude birth rate and the crude death rate of a population


demographic transition

demographic transition (countable and uncountable, plural demographic transitions)

(demography) The process that represents the transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system.


Paropamisadae

From Latin Paropamisadae, from Ancient Greek Παροπαμισάδαι (Paropamisádai).

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Παροπαμισάδαι

(historical demography) The people of Paropamisus in ancient Afghanistan.


Floridization

term-label

(American spelling, Oxford British English)

/ˌflɔɹɪdaɪˈzeɪʃən/

/ˌflɔɹədəˈzeɪʃən/

From Florida + -ization (suffix denoting the act, process, or result of doing something). Sense 2 (“phenomenon of the percentage of seniors in a specific region progressively increasing as the population ages”) refers to the sizable number of retirees who settle in the US state.

suffix

The investment banker Pete Peterson calls this "the Floridization of America." The decline in births, right after the peak years, has had an impact on every business that targets young adults.

1998, AFTRA, New York, N.Y.: American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 27:

Although the percentage and the sheer volume of elders and people with disabilities living in the United States in the 21st century is increasing, their distribution will vary across the country; the Floridization of the country will happen in pockets.

2000 February 1, Robyn I. Stone, “Toward Person-Centered Care”, in Nursing Homes, Cleveland, Oh.: International Pub. Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-03-10:

While the United States is not yet severely impacted, many European countries and Japan—much further along the road to Floridization—are already confronted with the need for action. The consequences of aging are even more dire in these countries because their populations "are aging even faster, birthrates are lower, the influx of young immigrants from developing countries is smaller, public pension benefits are more generous, and private pension systems are weaker."

2004, Dennis Clark Pirages, Theresa Manley DeGeest, “Demographic Change and Ecological Insecurity”, in Ecological Security: An Evolutionary Perspective on Globalization, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, page 48:

The greatest twin victory of humanity over health issues has delivered one of the greatest challenges to man: Population ageing. Often described as ‘Floridisation of the World’, population ageing is the outcome of man’s victory over death and deceases as well as unwanted child bearing [...].

2005, The Asian Economic Review, volume 47, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh: Indian Institute of Economics, →OCLC, page 1:

Even if policy shifts resources away from hard investment and back into social spending, the "Floridization" of Chinese demographics will intensify the shortage of healthcare provision over the next decade, worsening the frayed contract between patients, providers, and the government.

2013 September, Damien Ma, William Adams, “Welfare: Socialism with Chinese … Actually No, Not Socialism at All”, in In Line Behind a Billion People: How Scarcity Will Define China’s Ascent in the Next Decade, Upper Saddle River, N.J.: FT Press, →ISBN, part II (Social Scarcity), page 103:

(US, demography) The phenomenon of the percentage of seniors in a specific region progressively increasing as the population ages.


TFR

(demography) Initialism of total fertility rate.


census-designated place

en-noun

census-designated place (plural census-designated places)

(US, demography) A place containing a concentration of population, defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only; it is not a municipality, but either a subset of one or spanning into several.


IMD

index of multiple deprivation
w:Indices of Multiple Deprivation

(British, demography) Initialism of index of multiple deprivation.


GRR

gross reproduction rate
gross reproduction rate#English

(demography) Initialism of gross reproduction rate.


census area

(US) A subdivision of the Unorganized Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska, used by the United States Census Bureau to facilitate census-taking in the vast unorganized area.


population pyramid

population pyramid (plural population pyramids)

(demography) A graphical illustration of the distribution of a population (typically that of a country or region of the world) by age groups and sex; it typically forms the shape of a pyramid when the population is growing.

هَرَم سُكَّانِيّ

graphical illustration of the distribution of a population by age groups and sex


youth bulge

A particular demographic challenge, widespread across India but particularly concentrated in poorer northern states, is that of the “youth bulge”. The median age of an Indian is 29 and the country is grappling with a vast, ambitious and increasingly restless young population, the majority of whom are unskilled, and for whom there are not enough schools, universities, training programmes and most of all, not enough jobs.

2022 November 14, Hannah Ellis-Petersen, “India faces deepening demographic divide as it prepares to overtake China as the world’s most populous country”, in The Guardian:

(demography) A demographic pattern where a high proportion of the population (of a country etc.) consists of children and young adults (usually between around 15 to 25 years of age).


median age

In 2020, the median age of the United States population was 38.5 years.

(demography) The age that divides a population (of a country etc.) into two numerically equivalent groups.


incorporated place

incorporated place (plural incorporated places)

(US, demography) A type of governmental area incorporated under state law and having legally prescribed powers and functions.


generation time

generation time (plural generation times)

(demography) The average time between two consecutive generations in the lineages of a population.


geriatric millennial

geriatric millennial (plural geriatric millennials)

Coined by American writer, public speaker, and business consultant Erica Dhawan.

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Like me, Monahan is a geriatric millennial, but while it remains to be seen if I will shift, he has already moved forward.

2022 February 16, Allison P. Davis, “A Vibe Shift Is Coming – Will any of us survive it?”, in New York, →ISSN:

(humorous) A person born in the early 1980s; a xennial.


census tract

(US) A subdivision of a county or township, used by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes.