Demography focus
What are the focuses of demography?
Demographers seek to understand population dynamics by investigating three main demographic processes: birth, migration, and aging (including death).
All three of these processes contribute to changes in populations, including how people inhabit the earth, form nations and societies, and develop culture..
- The primary foci of demography are rates and levels of mortality, fertility, and migration and how these all interact to produce population growth (or decline), density, and age- and sex-structures; how these rates or levels vary across time and space and what produces such variation; and what consequences these have
Demographers seek to understand population dynamics by investigating three main demographic processes: birth, migration, and aging (including death). All three
Demography examines the size, structure, and movements of populations over space and time. It uses methods from history, economics, anthropology, sociology, and other fields.
