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demographer

demographer

7 7.2
A person who studies groups of people, their size and how they change
  • noun
  • /dɪˈmɒɡrəfər/
translation icon : demógrafo
  • U.S. Census demographers estimate that by the year 2050, nearly one in four Americans may be Hispanic.
  • demographers and sociologists
  • demographers and economists
  • demographers and scientists

Politicians, policy makers, sociologists, demographers, public health experts in the media cast black women's fertility as an urgent social problem.

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Examples

  • In the modern world, as the demographer Laurent Toulemon has observed, "very few couples remain childless voluntarily."

    Academic text (1997)
  • The demographer presented her findings on birth rates at the annual conference on population studies.

  • I mean, you're a demographer and your book has a great story of what a demographer does.

  • No wonder it makes the demographers so nervous.

    Academic text (2010)
  • Yet professional demographers and political economists focus on a different story.

    Academic text (2002)
  • But leading demographers agree that we are in no danger of depopulating our world anytime soon.

    Academic text (1998)
  • However, certain countries such as Angola and Mozambique still lack qualified demographers, and many others have only minimum staff.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Before the 2000 census, demographers predicted that Latinos would become the majority minority group in America by 2005.

    Academic text (2002)
  • Over the past several years, some of the world's best demographers have begun a dramatic reassessment of the world's demographic future.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Yet there is no consensus among policymakers—and certainly not among demographers—about what policies best encourage fertility.

    Academic text (2010)

Synonyms

demographist
vsdemographer
9.3

A scientist who studies how many people live in places and how their ages and numbers change

emphasizes where people live across areas rather than density
population scientist
vsdemographer
  • Specialized
5.1

A person who studies how groups of people grow and change

adds focus on population structure and geographic distribution

How Specialized

demographer
7 7.2
researcher
693 2.7
student
1.0

Surface Forms

demographer singular
demographers plural

Morphology

demographer = demography (transparent) = demo + graph + er

The word is a regular agent noun built from 'demography' plus '-er', meaning a person who studies demography.

Etymology

Demographer comes from the Greek parts demo- meaning 'people' and -graph meaning 'to write' or 'record', the same demo- you see in democracy and the -graph you see in photograph. So a demographer is a person who records and studies populations: they count people, check ages and where people live, and watch how these numbers change.