Demography

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  demography \de*mog"ra*phy\ (d[-e]*m[o^]g"r[.a]f[y^]), n. [Gr.
     dh^mos the people + -graphy.]
     The study of vital statistics, such as births, deaths,
     marriages, mortality, health, etc., in populations and
     subgroups of populations. -- {Dem`o*graph"ic}, a.
     [1913 Webster +PJC]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  demography
       n : the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of
           human populations [syn: {human ecology}]