English Explanatory Dictionary

demographic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or pertaining to demography.
noun
  1. A demographic criterion: a characteristic used to classify people for statistical purposes, such as age, race, or gender.
  2. A demographic group: a collection of people sharing a value for a certain demographic criterion.
  3. An individual person's characteristic, encoded for the purposes of statistical analysis.

Pronunciation

/ˌdɛm.əˈɡɹæf.ɪk/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-demographic.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-demographic.wav

Word forms

demographic more demographic most demographic demographics

Etymology

From demography + -ic.

Synonyms

demo

Related words

demographer demographical demographically demography

Derived words

biodemographic clinicodemographic demogrant demographic dividend demographic tax demographic transition ethnodemographic geodemographic isodemographic palaeodemographic paleodemographic phylodemographic phytodemographic socio-demographic sociodemographic subdemographic

Translations

Estonian: demograafia Estonian: rahvastikuteadus Finnish: väestötiede Finnish: demografia
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