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The statistical study of human population is called:
Topic: Demography
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(b) Demography.
DEMOGRAPHY is the statistical study of human populations — their size, structure, distribution, and the changes in them caused by births, deaths and migration.
Break the word apart: DEMO- means people (as in democracy) and -GRAPHY means description or study. The study of people.
The other options are not fields of study but MEASUREMENTS used within demography: NATALITY — the birth rate, per thousand per year MORTALITY — the death rate, per thousand per year Reading the question carefully settles it: it asks for the STUDY, not for a rate.
Demography.