What does "demographic" mean?

A demographic criterion: a characteristic used to classify people for statistical purposes, such as age, race, or gender.

Demographic

adj, noun

adj, noun ·4 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Noun

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A demographic criterion: a characteristic used to classify people for statistical purposes, such as age, race, or gender. in-plural
"1985, Richard I. Henderson, Compensation Management: Rewarding Performance, Fourth Edition, Reston Pub. Co., →ISBN, page 604, Of significant current interest is the fact that the compa-ratio can be used to analyze the pay treatment of specific groups of employees. Segregating employees by such demographics as gender, race, or age group (e.g., 18–25, 26–39, 40–50, 51–65), a compa-ratio analysis could provide a first indication […]"
2
a statistic characterizing human populations (or segments of human populations broken down by age or sex or income etc.) wordnet
3
A demographic group: a collection of people sharing a value for a certain demographic criterion.
"2002, Laura Grindstaff, ‘Pretty Woman with a Gun: La Femme Nikita and the Textual Politics of “The Remake”’, in Jennifer Forrest and Leonard R. Koos (eds.), Dead Ringers: The Remake in Theory and Practice, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 281, […] it was also the initial verdict for the Nikita television series before the show garnered something of a cult following among the crucial 30–something demographic, at which point the critical response grew decidedly more favorable."
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An individual person's characteristic, encoded for the purposes of statistical analysis.

Adjective

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Of or pertaining to demography.
"Yet it does bring up a much more real problem about China's demographic transition, which has led some to argue that China will "get old before it gets rich.""

Adjective