Demography vs Economics - What's the difference?
demography | economics |
The study of human populations, and how they change.
(social sciences) The study of resource allocation, distribution and consumption; of capital and investment; and of management of the factors of production.
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As nouns the difference between demography and economics
is that demography is the study of human populations, and how they change while economics is the study of resource allocation, distribution and consumption; of capital and investment; and of management of the factors of production.demography
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(wikipedia demography)Noun
(en-noun)economics
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(wikipedia economics)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(-)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.}}