DEMOGRAPHY

Describe a population
Demos - people
Graphy - description

Definition
Demography is the statistical study
of human populations. Demography
examines the size, structure, and
movements of populations over
space and time. It uses methods
from history, economics,
anthropology, sociology, and other
fields.
Importance
Planning health and public health
initiatives requires an understanding
of a population's structure; age
pyramids are a useful way to
visualize population structures.
Fertility, mortality, and migration all
affect population growth or
reduction.

Purpose Examples
Demographers study the three basic Birth
demographic processes of birth, Marriage
migration, and aging to better Deaths
understand population dynamics Population
(including death). All three of these Age
processes have an impact on how Gender
humans inhabit the earth, create Occupation
nations and communities, and shape Education
culture. Nationality
Ethnicity
Religion

In business
Companies look to demographics to
craft more effective marketing and
advertising campaigns and to
understand patterns among
different audiences.
In government
Governments use socioeconomic
information to understand the age,
racial makeup, and income
distribution (among several other
variables) in neighborhoods, cities,
states, and nations in order to make
better public policy decisions.
2. Unscramble these words to discover the terms associated with
Demography and give brief definition. (you may include this in your
infographics)

population
census
migration
registries
birth