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DEMOGRAPHER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does demographer mean?
• DEMOGRAPHER (noun)
The noun DEMOGRAPHER has 1 sense:
1. a scientist who studies the growth and density of populations and their vital statistics
Familiarity information: DEMOGRAPHER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A scientist who studies the growth and density of populations and their vital statistics
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
demographer; demographist; population scientist
Hypernyms ("demographer" is a kind of...):
sociologist (a social scientist who studies the institutions and development of human society)
Derivation:
demography (the branch of sociology that studies the characteristics of human populations)
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