The Demopaedia team will be present at the next International Population Conference in Busan.
If you attend the conference, please, come to our oral communication which will be held on Tuesday August 27, from 15:30 to 17:00 (Bexco, room 213). The new Korean dictionary will also be presented in a side meeting organized by the Planned Population Federation of Korea (PPFK) on "Population Issues & Official development assistance" (open to all) at 19:00 (Bexco, room 110).

Demography

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Demography is the scientific study of human populations primarily with respect to their size, their structure and their development; it takes into account the quantitative aspects of their general characteristics. In statistical terminology any collection of distinct elements may be called a population, a word that is synonymous with universe. However, in demographic usage, the term population refers to all of the inhabitants of a given area, though on occasion it may be used for part of the inhabitants only [e.g., the school-age population, the marriageable population. Such groups are properly called sub-populations. The term population is often used to denote more specifically the size, i.e., the total number of the aggregate.

A demographer is a specialist in demography.

Usage

Note that the term Population may also be used adjectivally as a synonym for demographic, e.g., in population problems, population analysis, population studies.

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