DEMOGRAPHY

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Meaning:

The branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations

Synonyms:

demography; human ecology

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("demography" is a kind of...):

sociology (the study and classification of human societies)

Derivation:

demographer; demographist (a scientist who studies the growth and density of populations and their vital statistics)