demographer
Noun
Meaning
a scientist who studies the growth and density of populations and their vital statistics
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According to Russian demographer Dmitry Bogoyavlensky, the 2002 census results were clearly manipulated in the North Caucasus: an estimated 800,000 to 1 million non-existent people were added to the actual population of the region.
Another Russian demographer, Anatoly Vishnevsky, pointed out that according to the 2002 census, some age groups, like those born in 1950, appeared to be larger in 2002 than in 1989.
"This is a different America than we had back in 1968," said William Frey, a demographer and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
It’s the same thing in New York,” said USC demographer Dowell Myers.
But each year that goes by in which birthrates stay the same or fall makes a rebound less likely, says Gretchen Livingston, a demographer at the Pew Research Center.
The first attempt to analyse this data to estimate the number of famine deaths was carried out by American demographer Dr. Judith Banister and published in 1984.