demography

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Americans lately have been focused on artificial intelligence, but demography is likely to prove equally important.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

Dr Bernice Kuang, a research fellow in demography at the University of Southampton, claimed Londoners still wanted to have an average of two children, but that this was not feasible for many in the capital.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2025

“No city has ever been produced by such an extraordinary mixture of geography, climate, economics, demography, mechanics and culture,” said Reyner Banham, the British architectural historian who wrote about Los Angeles a half-century ago.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025

“You have one guy, a sociologist, who has no formal training in demography and who’s never been to a blue zone making all these sorts of parallel claims.”

From Science Magazine • Nov. 20, 2024

In general, then, there was a direct and nearly perfect correlation between demography and ideology—that is, between the ratio of blacks to whites in the population and the reluctance to consider abolition.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis