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# demographer

«demographer» in Mova's school dictionary: **A scientist who studies populations: how many people live…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a demographer, demographers)

### meaning for a pupil

A scientist who studies populations: how many people live in a place, how old they are, how many are born, die or move. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demographer/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and social studies, demographers use the census and other numbers to show how populations grow or shrink and how they change; governments use their work to plan schools, hospitals and homes. Phrases: «demographers predict», «population trends», «birth rate».

### examples

- A demographer studies how many people are born each year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demographer/#x1)
- Demographers say the town's population will double. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demographer/#x2)
- The demographer used census numbers to make a chart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demographer/#x3)
- Demographers noticed that families are getting smaller. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demographer/#x4)
- Planners asked a demographer how many school places would be needed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demographer/#x5)
- My aunt is a demographer who studies where people move. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demographer/#x6)

### note

Countable noun. Related words: demography (the study), demographic (about population, or a group of people). Pronounced «de-MOG-ra-fer». «Demo» comes from Greek for people, as in democracy.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «demographer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/demographer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.