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demographer

[ dih-mog-ruh-fer ]

noun

  1. a person who specializes in the study of vital and social statistics, as the number of births, deaths, diseases, or marriages in a population:

    Some demographers project a world population of 9 billion by 2050.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of demographer1

First recorded in 1875–80; demograph(y) ( def ) + -er 1( def )
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Example Sentences

Significantly, the map displays what demographers have previously noted: Unlike other major American cities, L.A.’s racial and ethnic groups are more likely to encounter each other because we don’t huddle with just our own.

After consulting with demographers from the Census Bureau, Los Angeles County demographers and the Population Reference Bureau, the analysis was limited to tracts using data from the 2000 and 2022 ACS.

Many demographers worried the new method would degrade the quality of census data, which are used not just for academic studies, but also for drawing congressional districts and allocating federal funds.

“These forces form the prime reasons for the return to positive population growth,” state demographer Walter Schwarm told me in an email.

“Grow and grow and grow and eventually there’s not enough room,” says Hans Johnson, a demographer at the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California.

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