demographic.

1. Relating to the size, composition, distribution or changes of a population.

2. A particular population group considered as a category, especially in marketing or social analysis.

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Words that belong together

• demographic change
• demographic profile

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Demographic change affected the demand for different services over the period.

The demographic profile summarized the population without representing every resident’s circumstances.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Relational adjective; normally no comparative or superlative. Noun demographic has plural demographics. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: social explanation, distributional analysis, population description, concept distinction. Disciplines: social science, economics, public policy. Commonness: moderately common.