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demography

Also known as population research, demographic research

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Demography is the study of human populations, including their size, growth, and changes over time. It matters because understanding these population trends helps societies plan for the future in areas like resources, healthcare, and education.

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Research

2,049,330 papers

Reconstructing prehistoric demography: What role for extant hunter-gatherers?ReviewEvolutionary anthropology · 2020Page AE, French JCDOI: 10.1002/evan.21869
Archaeology, demography and life history theory together can help us explain past and present population patterns.ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Shennan S, Sear RDOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0711
GENETICAL DEMOGRAPHY.Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 1963MATHER KDOI: 10.1098/rspb.1963.0070
The Formal Demography of Peak Population.Demography · 2024Goldstein JR, Cassidy TDOI: 10.1215/00703370-11216714
Bayesian demography 250 years after Bayes.ReviewPopulation studies · 2016Bijak J, Bryant JDOI: 10.1080/00324728.2015.1122826
Demography and the environment.ReviewDemography · 1998Pebley AR
Demography's Changing Intellectual Landscape: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Leading Anglophone Journals, 1950-2020.Demography · 2023Merli MG, Moody J, Verdery A et al.DOI: 10.1215/00703370-10714127
Environmental Malthusianism and demography.Social studies of science · 2022Merchant EKDOI: 10.1177/03063127221104929

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Contents

History
Methods
Direct methods
Indirect methods
Population change
Standardization of population numbers
Common rates and ratios
Basic equation regarding development of a population
Science of population
Population composition
Demographic analysis in institutions and organizations
Labor market
Turnover and in internal labor markets
Population ecology of organizations
Business organizations
Nonprofit organizations
See also
Social surveys
Organizations
Scientific journals
References
Further reading
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Demography () is the statistical study of human populations: their size, composition (e.g., ethnic group, age), and how they change through the interplay of fertility (births), mortality (deaths), and migration.