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From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium

• Demography [r]: The study of the change in the size, density, distribution and composition of human populations over time. [e]
• Demographic transition [r]: The theory that societies progress from a premodern regime of high fertility and high mortality to a postmodern regime of low fertility and low mortality. [e]