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Define the term ‘demography’


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Definition:

  1. Demography is a branch of science that deals with the study of human population based on statistics.

Features of demography:

  1. The population experts who study demography consider characteristics such as age, sex etc.
  2. National surveys and population census carried out provide these data to the experts.

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