demographic

comparative more demographic · superlative most demographic

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

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   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

plural demographics

1. in pluralA demographic criterion: a characteristic used to classify people for statistical purposes, such as age, race, or gender.

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   1985, Richard I. Henderson, Compensation Management: Rewarding Performance, Fourth Edition, Reston Pub. Co., →ISBN, page 604, Of significant current interest is the fact that the compa-ratio can be used to analyze the pay treatment of specific groups of employees. Segregating employees by such demographics as gender, race, or age group (e.g., 18–25, 26–39, 40–50, 51–65), a compa-ratio analysis could provide a first indication […]

   2000, James Chapman, “Impact of Building Roads to Everywhere”, in Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, and Angel O. Torres (eds.), Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta, Island Press, →ISBN, page 82, How will this investment affect at the individual level, based on being disaggregated by various demographics (race and ethnicity, gender, age, disability, income) and locations (inner city, inner ring suburbs, suburbs, exurbs), miles traveled, travel time, accessibility to transit, and car ownership?

2. A demographic group: a collection of people sharing a value for a certain demographic criterion.

   2006, Kelley Keehn, The Woman's Guide to Money, Insomniac Press, →ISBN, page 44, As a member of the Generation X demographic, I'm saddened to admit that paying with plastic (whether debit or credit card) has superseded paying with real money.

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   2002, Laura Grindstaff, ‘Pretty Woman with a Gun: La Femme Nikita and the Textual Politics of “The Remake”’, in Jennifer Forrest and Leonard R. Koos (eds.), Dead Ringers: The Remake in Theory and Practice, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 281, […] it was also the initial verdict for the Nikita television series before the show garnered something of a cult following among the crucial 30–something demographic, at which point the critical response grew decidedly more favorable.

   A newspaper is consumed by many demographics, a small portion of which may be the target.

   2006, Tom Hutchison, Amy Macy, Paul Allen, Record Label Marketing, Elsevier, page 189

   "The demographic for NASCAR is people who eat," said Steve Page, president of the former Infineon Raceway […] . "We're giving people plenty to do before the race."

   2012, 24 June (Sun), Debbie Arrington, "Racing Fans are being courted", The Sacramento Bee, page C1, col. 4

   Rail is clearly a more sustainable option, and the demographic of the population living in the areas served by the new stations certainly seems to be a good fit when it comes to modal shift.

   2025 October 1, Peter Plisner, “Closing in on Camp Hill reopening”, in RAIL, number 1045, pages 46-47

   Synonyms: demo

3. An individual person's characteristic, encoded for the purposes of statistical analysis.