demographic

What it means

1. Of or pertaining to demography.

   A growing foreign-born population has sparked debate in Japan amid the pressures of a demographic crisis and economic worries.

   2025 September 29, Justin McCurry, “‘My kids are too scared to go outside’: Kurdish migrants face hostility as Japan wrestles with demographic crisis”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 Oct 2025

   1 more example

   Yet it does bring up a much more real problem about China's demographic transition, which has led some to argue that China will "get old before it gets rich."

   2011 February 18, James Fallows, “How to Solve China's Gender Imbalance? The 'Babe Tax'”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 23 Feb 2011

In a sentence

Yet it does bring up a much more real problem about China's demographic transition, which has led some to argue that China will "get old before it gets rich."

2011 February 18, James Fallows, “How to Solve China's Gender Imbalance? The 'Babe Tax'”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 23 Feb 2011

Where it comes from

From demography + -ic.