| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| demography |
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| SYLLABICATION: | de·mog·ra·phy |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  d -m g r -f |
| NOUN: | The study of the characteristics of human populations, such as size, growth, density, distribution, and vital statistics. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French démographie : Greek dmos, people; see d - in Appendix I + French -graphie, writing (from Greek -graphi, -graphy). | | OTHER FORMS: | de·mogra·pher —NOUN
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