Bachelors Degree in Demography

About the Demography Programme

Demography is an immensely challenging and exciting discipline. Most people think Demography is just mathematics in disguise – a sort of dry social accounting. Once exposed to the subject, however, many change their minds. So will you! You will come to appreciate the profound impact demographic forces have on society.

Demography studies human populations: their size, composition, and distribution, as well as the causes and consequences of changes in these factors.

Demography is also interdisciplinary as it draws its subject matter and methods from many disciplines such as Statistics, Mathematics, Sociology, Economics, Biology, Geography, History, and the Health Sciences. Demography is all about our lives: when and where we were born, our marital status, the number of children we have or will have and how far apart, our movements, how long we will live, our chances of dying and what will kill us, how many jobs we’ll have and what kind, et cetera. All these are demographic phenomena and are analysed in the aggregate and in terms of their social and economic implications. We hope you can see that if people are not interested in demographic phenomena, then they are not interested in themselves.

The undergraduate demography program is a four-year course.  To major in Demography a student is required to take at least ten demography courses in a period of four years. 

The courses given below (codes & titles), from the first to fourth year, are mandatory and must therefore be taken by all students majoring in demography.

COURSES

First Year

• Introduction to demography

Second Year

• Introduction to sources and measures of demographic data                     
• Introduction to population composition and components of population change                              
• Research and statistical methods in social sciences 

Third Year

• Population and Development
• Introduction to methods of demographic Data Evaluation and analysis
• Computer applications in demography

Forth Year

• Techniques of Demographic Analysis and Estimation
• Research Project in demography
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Health demography

Why Study Demography?

Demography will open up a whole new world for you. It will teach you to think systematically, critically, analytically, and in a disciplined and informed manner. 

You will acquire skills in a lot of computer applications such as Ms-Word, Ms-Excel, SPSS, Demproj, Epi Data, Epi-Info, STATA, Cspro, QGIS etc. Our programme produces the most computer-literate graduates in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. 

There is a variety of interesting Courses offered:

• Introduction to Demography
• Sources and Measures of Demographic Data
• Population Composition, Change, and Theories
• Research and Statistical Methods in the Social Sciences
• Population and Development
• Methods of Demographic Evaluation and Analysis
• Computer Applications in Demography
• Advanced Techniques of Demographic Data Analysis and Estimations
• Research Project in Demography
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Health Demography 

Employers are increasingly recognizing the skills of Demographers and our graduates have the most sought after skills and competencies on the job market. Demography graduates get jobs in Research, Statistical Institutions, Insurance firms, Planning Units in Local government, Health, Teaching, Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs), and international organizations such as USAID, UNDP, JICA, UNFPA among others.