what is a demography?

Etymological demography is combination of two Greek words, Demos “meaning   people and graphs meaning science.  Thus demography is the science of people. In the 18^th c the word demography was first used by a French winter Achille Guillard. Population studies defined as the scientific study of human population.  Major areas studies include broad population dynamics, fertility and family dynamics, health   aging and mortality and human capital and labor markets (Sharma, 2007:170)

According to Helen (1995:1), Demography is the name given to the scientific study of human population. Demographers also study the characteristics of human population especially the way people are distributed in terms of different ages and the proportions who are male and female.

According to Oxford (2014:11) Demographer   deal with  collection, presentation   and analysis   of data relating  to the basic  life – cycle events  and experience  of people: birth,  marriage, divorce, household  and  family formation, migration  employment, aging and  death.

According to Msabila (2003:2) demography is the scientific study of human population. It covers its growth, density, distribution and movement as well as the aspects of economic and social development.

In general, Demography is the scientific study of human population and its characteristics

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