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demography

noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /dɪˈmɒɡɹəfi/
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  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɒɡɹəfi
  • CMU ARPABET: D IH0 M AA1 G R AH0 F IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

The study of the characteristics of human populations, especially with regards to their makeup and fluctuations and the social causes behind these.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The study of the structure and population dynamics of other lifeforms, such as mammals, insects, plants, etc.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

The particular demographic makeup of a population.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: human ecology

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: sociology

History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

79 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: demografie — study of human populations
  • Albanian: demografia — study of human populations
  • Arabic: دِيمُوغْرَافِيَا (dīmūḡrāfiyā) — study of human populations
  • Arabic: دِمُوغْرَافِيَا (dimūḡrāfiyā) — study of human populations
  • Arabic: عِلْم السُّكّان (ʕilm as-sukkān) — study of human populations
  • Armenian: ժողովրդագրություն (žoġovrdagrutʻyun) — study of human populations
  • Armenian: դեմոգրաֆիա (demografia) — study of human populations
  • Azerbaijani: demoqrafiya — study of human populations
  • Basque: demografia — study of human populations
  • Belarusian: дэмагра́фія (demahráfija) — study of human populations
  • Bengali: জনসংখ্যাতত্ত্ব (jonośoṅkhatotto) — study of human populations
  • Bulgarian: демогра́фия (demográfija) — study of human populations
  • Catalan: demografia — study of human populations
  • Chinese Cantonese: 人口統計學 /人口统计学 (jan4 hau2 tung2 gai3 hok6) — study of human populations
  • Chinese Mandarin: 人口學 /人口学 (rénkǒuxué) — study of human populations
  • Chinese Mandarin: 人口統計學 /人口统计学 (rénkǒu tǒngjìxué) — study of human populations
  • Czech: demografie — study of human populations
  • Danish: demografi — study of human populations
  • Dutch: demografie — study of human populations
  • Dutch: bevolkingsleer — study of human populations
  • Esperanto: demografio — study of human populations
  • Estonian: demograafia — study of human populations
  • Estonian: rahvastikuteadus — study of human populations
  • Finnish: väestötiede — study of human populations
  • Finnish: demografia — study of human populations
  • French: démographie — study of human populations
  • Galician: demografía — study of human populations
  • Georgian: დემოგრაფია (demograpia) — study of human populations
  • German: Demografie — study of human populations
  • German: Bevölkerungswissenschaft — study of human populations
  • Greek: δημογραφία (dimografía) — study of human populations
  • Gujarati: વસ્તીવિષયક (vastīviṣyak) — study of human populations
  • Hebrew: דֶּמוֹגְרַפְיָה (demografia) — study of human populations
  • Hindi: जनसांख्यिकी (jansāṅkhyikī) — study of human populations
  • Hungarian: demográfia — study of human populations
  • Icelandic: lýðfræði — study of human populations
  • Ido: demografio — study of human populations
  • Indonesian: demografi — study of human populations
  • Indonesian: kependudukan — study of human populations
  • Irish: déimeagrafaíocht — study of human populations
  • Italian: demografia — study of human populations
  • Japanese: 人口学 (jinkōgaku) — study of human populations
  • Japanese: 人口統計学 (jinkō tōkeigaku) — study of human populations
  • Kazakh: демография (demografiä) — study of human populations
  • Korean: 인구학 (in'guhak) — study of human populations
  • Korean: 인구통계학 (in'gutonggyehak) — study of human populations
  • Northern Kurdish: demografî — study of human populations
  • Latvian: demogrāfija — study of human populations
  • Lithuanian: demografija — study of human populations
  • Macedonian: демографија (demografija) — study of human populations
  • Malay: demografi — study of human populations
  • Marathi: जनगणनाशास्त्र (jangaṇnāśāstra) — study of human populations
  • Norwegian Bokmål: demografi — study of human populations
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: demografi — study of human populations
  • Occitan: demografia — study of human populations
  • Persian: دِموگرافی (demôgrâfi) — study of human populations
  • Persian: جمعیتشناسی (jam'iyat-šenâsi) — study of human populations
  • Persian: مردمنگاری (mardom-negâri) — study of human populations
  • Polish: demografia — study of human populations
  • Portuguese: demografia — study of human populations
  • Punjabi: ਡੈਮੋਗਰਾਫ਼ੀ (ḍaimogrāfī) — study of human populations
  • Romanian: demografie — study of human populations
  • Russian: демогра́фия (demográfija) — study of human populations
  • Serbo-Croatian: демографија — study of human populations
  • Serbo-Croatian: demografija — study of human populations
  • Slovak: demografia — study of human populations
  • Slovene: demografija — study of human populations
  • Spanish: demografía — study of human populations
  • Swedish: demografi — study of human populations
  • Swedish: befolkningslära — study of human populations
  • Tagalog: talasantauhan — study of human populations
  • Tagalog: demograpiya — study of human populations
  • Thai: ประชากรศาสตร์ (bprà-chaa-gɔɔ-rá-sàat) — study of human populations
  • Turkish: demografi — study of human populations
  • Ukrainian: демогра́фія (demohráfija) — study of human populations
  • Urdu: آبادِیات (ābādiyāt) — study of human populations
  • Uzbek: demografiya — study of human populations
  • Vietnamese: nhân khẩu học — study of human populations
  • Yiddish: דעמאָגראַפֿיע (demografye) — study of human populations
Real reading context

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