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demographic

Pronunciation: /ˌdɛm.əˈɡɹæf.ɪk/

The English word “demographic” has 4 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to demography.

noun

  1. A demographic criterion: a characteristic used to classify people for statistical purposes, such as age, race, or gender.
  2. A demographic group: a collection of people sharing a value for a certain demographic criterion.
  3. An individual person's characteristic, encoded for the purposes of statistical analysis.

Etymology

From demography + -ic.

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