demography.

The study of populations, including their size, composition, distribution, and change.

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Words that belong together

• historical demography
• comparative demography

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Historical demography helped explain the region's shrinking villages.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. 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: analysis, evaluation, social science. Commonness: moderately common.