"demography" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /dɪˈmɒɡɹəfi/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-demography.wav [Southern-England], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-demography.wav [US] Forms: demographies [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi Etymology: demo- (“people”) + -graphy (“written representation of”) Etymology templates: {{confix|en|demo|graphy|gloss1=people|gloss2=written representation of}} demo- (“people”) + -graphy (“written representation of”) Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Demography Translations (study of human populations): demografie (Afrikaans), demografia (Albanian), دِيمُوغْرَافِيَا (dimuḡrāfiyā) [feminine] (Arabic), دِمُوغْرَافِيَا (dimuḡrāfiyā) [feminine] (Arabic), ժողովրդագրություն (žoġovrdagrutʻyun) (Armenian), demoqrafiya (Azerbaijani), demografia (Basque), дэмагра́фія (demahráfija) [feminine] (Belarusian), জনসংখ্যাতত্ত্ব (jonośoṅkhatotto) (Bengali), демогра́фия (demográfija) [feminine] (Bulgarian), demografia [feminine] (Catalan), 人口學 (Chinese Mandarin), 人口学 (rénkǒuxué) (Chinese Mandarin), demografie [feminine] (Czech), demografi [common-gender] (Danish), demografie [feminine] (Dutch), bevolkingsleer [masculine] (Dutch), demografio (Esperanto), demograafia (Estonian), rahvastikuteadus (Estonian), väestötiede (Finnish), demografia (Finnish), démographie [feminine] (French), demografía [feminine] (Galician), დემოგრაფია (demograpia) (Georgian), Demografie [feminine] (German), Bevölkerungswissenschaft [feminine] (German), δημογραφία (dimografía) [feminine] (Greek), વસ્તીવિષયક (vastīviṣyak) (Gujarati), דמוגרפיה (demografia) [feminine] (Hebrew), जनसांख्यिकी (jansāṅkhyikī) (Hindi), demográfia (Hungarian), demografio (Ido), demografi (Indonesian), kependudukan (Indonesian), déimeagrafaíocht [feminine] (Irish), demografia [feminine] (Italian), 人口学 (jinkōgaku) (alt: じんこうがく) (Japanese), демография (demografiä) (Kazakh), 인구통계학 (in'gutonggyehak) (Korean), demogrāfija [feminine] (Latvian), demografija [feminine] (Lithuanian), демографија (demografija) [feminine] (Macedonian), demografi (Malay), जनगणनाशास्त्र (jangaṇnāśāstra) (Marathi), demografî [feminine] (Northern Kurdish), demografi [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), demografi [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), demografia [feminine] (Occitan), دِموگرافی (demôgrâfi) (Persian), demografia [feminine] (Polish), demografia [feminine] (Portuguese), ਡੈਮੋਗਰਾਫ਼ੀ (ḍaimogrāfī) (Punjabi), demografie [feminine] (Romanian), демогра́фия (demográfija) [feminine] (Russian), демографија [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), demografija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), demografia [feminine] (Slovak), demografija [feminine] (Slovene), demografía [feminine] (Spanish), demografi [common-gender] (Swedish), befolkningslära [common-gender] (Swedish), talasantauhan (Tagalog), ประชากรศาสตร์ (bprà-chaa-gɔɔ-rá-sàat) (Thai), demografi (Turkish), демогра́фія (demohráfija) [feminine] (Ukrainian), demografiya (Uzbek), nhân khẩu học (alt: 人口學) (Vietnamese), דעמאָגראַפֿיע (demografye) [feminine] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-demography-en-noun-pTDQICfC Disambiguation of Demography: 38 25 38 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -graphy Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 58 36 6 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 53 37 10 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -graphy: 57 31 12 Disambiguation of 'study of human populations': 71 22 7
  2. The study of the structure and population dynamics of other lifeforms, such as mammals, insects, plants, etc. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Demography
    Sense id: en-demography-en-noun-mVlbbKaJ Disambiguation of Demography: 38 25 38
  3. The particular demographic makeup of a population. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Demography
    Sense id: en-demography-en-noun-vx8poOBc Disambiguation of Demography: 38 25 38 Categories (other): English terms prefixed with demo- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with demo-: 25 31 44
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: demology Related terms: demographics

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.