Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

Demography

Statistical interpretation and description of a population with reference to distribution, composition, or structure.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Statistical interpretation and description of a population with reference to distribution, composition, or structure.

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Synonyms

67 entry terms
  • Demographic
  • Demographics
  • Accounting, Demographic
  • Analyses, Demographic
  • Analyses, Multiregional
  • Analysis, Period
  • Brass Technic
  • Brass Technique
  • Demographer
  • Demographers
  • Demographic Accounting
  • Demographic Analysis
  • Demographic Factor
  • Demographic Factors
  • Demographic Impact
  • Demographic Impacts
  • Demographic Survey
  • Demographic Surveys
  • Demographic and Health Survey
  • Demographic and Health Surveys
  • Demography, Historical
  • Demography, Prehistoric
  • Factor, Demographic
  • Factors, Demographic
  • Family Reconstitution
  • Historical Demography
  • Impact, Demographic
  • Impacts, Demographic
  • Multiregional Analysis
  • Period Analysis
  • Population Distribution
  • Population Spatial Distribution
  • Prehistoric Demography
  • Reverse Survival Method
  • Stable Population Method
  • Survey, Demographic
  • Surveys, Demographic
  • Analyses, Period
  • Analysis, Demographic
  • Analysis, Multiregional
  • Demographic Analyses
  • Demographies, Historical
  • Demographies, Prehistoric
  • Distribution, Population
  • Distribution, Population Spatial
  • Distributions, Population
  • Distributions, Population Spatial
  • Family Reconstitutions
  • Historical Demographies
  • Method, Reverse Survival
  • Method, Stable Population
  • Methods, Reverse Survival
  • Methods, Stable Population
  • Multiregional Analyses
  • Period Analyses
  • Population Distributions
  • Population Methods, Stable
  • Population Spatial Distributions
  • Prehistoric Demographies
  • Reconstitution, Family
  • Reconstitutions, Family
  • Reverse Survival Methods
  • Spatial Distribution, Population
  • Spatial Distributions, Population
  • Stable Population Methods
  • Technic, Brass
  • Technique, Brass

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Aspects Covered

10 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, standards, statistics & numerical data, supply & distribution, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

the statistical study of population characteristics; do not confuse with the POPULATION itself

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Tree Numbers

  1. I01w.240w
  2. N01.224w
  3. N06.850w.505.400w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Demography. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D003710. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D003710
  2. Demography. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography
  3. Demography. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37732