The word demography comes from two ancient Greek words, demos, meaning "the people," and graphy, meaning "writing about or recording something" — so literally demography means "writing about the people." Like many branches of the sciences, demography began in the 19th century, when the general craze for cataloging .
The term demography has been ascribed to a Bel- gian statistician, Achille Guillard, who coined it in 1855.
However, the origins of modern demography are usually traced back to John Graunt's quantita- tive analyses of the “Bills of Mortality” published in 1662 [5]..
A corner of history: John Graunt, 1620-1674, the father of demography..
Malthus Founder of Modern Demography..
Thomas Robert Malthus was an influential British economist who is best known for his theory on population growth, outlined in his 1798 book An Essay on the Principle of Population..
The development of the discipline of demography is usually traced to seventheenth-century England, especially among the founders of the Royal Society
Graunt can thus be regarded as the founder of formal demography, which eventually reached the height of its influence in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and, with its mathematical-statistical models, established the methodological foundation for any work on population processes, from the micro to the macro level
The early English demographers knew and worked beside Isaac Newton (1643–1727), who was discovering the laws of physics
However, most sixteenth-and seventeenth-century demographers were, like Newton, also searching for a divine pattern and, like him, were Protestants
