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demographic

/ˌdɛm.əˈɡɹæf.ɪk/ Canada, US, UK
/ˌdem.əˈɡɹæf.ɪk/ Australia

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From demography + -ic.

adjective more demographic · most demographic

Of or pertaining to demography. Yet it does bring up a much more real problem about China's demographic transition, which has led some to argue that China will "get old before it gets rich."

noun demographics

in plural A demographic criterion: a characteristic used to classify people for statistical purposes, such as age, race, or gender. 1985, Richard I. Henderson, Compensation Management: Rewarding Performance, Fourth Edition, Reston Pub. Co., →ISBN, page 604, Of significant current interest is the fact that the compa-ratio can be used to analyze the pay treatment of specific groups of employees. Segregating employees by such demog
A demographic group: a collection of people sharing a value for a certain demographic criterion. 2002, Laura Grindstaff, ‘Pretty Woman with a Gun: La Femme Nikita and the Textual Politics of “The Remake”’, in Jennifer Forrest and Leonard R. Koos (eds.), Dead Ringers: The Remake in Theory and Practice, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 281, […] it was also the initial verdict for t
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An individual person's characteristic, encoded for the purposes of statistical analysis.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: demographical, demography, population, people, democratic, residential, force, vital, geographic, silk, persons, populations, populace, inhabitants, residents, cohort

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adj of or pertaining to demography

Español	demográfico
Português	demográfico
Français	démographique
Deutsch	demographisch
Italiano	demografico
Ελληνικά	δημογραφικός dimografikós
Română	demografic
Русский	демографи́ческий demografíčeskij
עברית	דֵּמוֹגְרָפִי demografi

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@misc{demographic_2026,
  title = {demographic},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/demographic},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}