demographer:
(also ‘demographist’; plural: ‘demographers‘; pronunciation: the letters ‘g’ & ‘r’ are said with a ‘gr’ sound as in “grand”, the letters ‘p’ and ‘h’ are said with an ‘f’ sound as in “father”)
Sonalde Desai, demographer, University of Maryland
a person who studies the information in figures about the population of an area or country and how these figures vary (differ) with time;
a person/scientist who studies and knows about the growth of population and the density (number of people) in an area, and can advise on the problems of population in a given area, country, etc.;
a population scientist,
Calvin Beale, demographer, USA
As a demographer for the National Population Distribution Board, Mathew travels to different places and gathers first hand information about the number of people in an area and how this number increases or decreases over a period of time.
As with several other professionals, the present day demographers mostly work in their offices using advanced gadgets in calculating and analysing the population figures of a given area.
In the present day populations statistics, demographers are required to include individual family demography in population studies.
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