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Demographics of Utah
Demographics of Utah: state population 3,271,616 (2020 census), 3,538,904 estimated July 2025; youngest median age of any state (32.6); 17.6% Hispanic or Latino; rapid growth from natural change and migration.
Demographics of Uttar Pradesh
The demographics of Uttar Pradesh describe the population of India's most populous state, home to about 16.5 percent of India's people, with 235.7 million projected for 2023.
Demographics of Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan, a Central Asian country, reported a preliminary population of 39,047,321 in its 2026 census. The population is distributed unevenly, with 54.5% of residents living in urban areas.
Demographics of Venezuela
The demographics of Venezuela describe the size, structure, and dynamics of the country's population, estimated at about 28.5 million in 2025 after peaking above 30 million in 2016.
Demographics of Vietnam
Demographics of Vietnam: population size, growth, fertility, urbanization, migration, ethnicity and aging of Viet Nam, a 100-million-person Southeast Asian country with below-replacement fertility since the 2020s.
Demographics of Washington, D.C.
Demographics of Washington, D.C. describe the district's population, about 693,645 in 2025, down from a 1950 peak of 802,000 and up from a 2000 low of 572,059, with shifting racial, age, and income composition.
Demographics of Western Sahara
Demographics of Western Sahara: disputed North African territory with UN-projected 2025 population of 601,000, density 2.3/km2, heavily urbanized; no post-1976 census, so counts range from about 500,000 to 1 million, plus roughly 173,600 Sahrawi refugees in Tindouf camps.
Demographics of Yemen
Demographics of Yemen: the UN estimates 41.8 million people in 2025, with 41% under age 15, a total fertility rate of 4.4, life expectancy of 67 (male) and 72 (female), 4.8 million internally displaced, and estimates based on the 1975, 1994, and 2004 censuses.
Demographics of Zambia
Demographics of Zambia tracks the population of the Southern African nation. It is characterized by rapid growth and a young age structure, with 41 percent of people aged 0 to 14.
Demographics of Zimbabwe
The demographics of Zimbabwe cover the country's population, which the 2022 census counted at 15,178,979, up 16.2 percent from 2012, with a young median age of 17.8 years.
Demography
Demography, also called population studies, is the statistical study of human populations: their size, composition, and distribution, shaped by fertility, mortality, and migration, using census, survey, and vital registration data and methods from life tables to projections.
Demography of the Netherlands
Demography of the Netherlands: Dutch population statistics, 17.8-18 million inhabitants, growth driven 97% by migration, ageing population, and CBS census history and forecasts.
DeMolay International
DeMolay International, originally the Order of DeMolay, is a Masonic-sponsored fraternal youth organization for young men ages 12-21, founded in 1919 in Kansas City, Missouri by Frank S. Land and named for Jacques DeMolay, last Grand Master of the Knights Templar.
Dene
Dene: Indigenous Athabaskan-speaking peoples of Canada's western subarctic and Denendeh, part of the Na-Dené family, with modern land claim treaties (Sahtu 1994, Tłı̨chǫ 2005) and the proposed Dené-Yeniseian link to Siberia's Ket.
Dependency ratio
The dependency ratio expresses dependents (under 15 or 65+) per 100 people of working age (15–64); also child and old-age dependency ratios; used in demographic dividend and fiscal aging analysis.
Deshastha Brahmin
Deshastha Brahmin (देशस्थ ब्राह्मण): a Marathi Brahmin sub-caste of the Deccan plateau, Maharashtra's largest and oldest Brahmin community, split into Rigvedi and Yajurvedi branches, traditionally priests, with gotras such as Kashyap and Bharadwaj.
Desi
Desi (Hindi/Urdu desī, from Sanskrit deśa, country) is a colloquial term for people, cultures, and products of the Indian subcontinent, especially South Asians abroad; recorded in English since 1880, diaspora noun sense since the late twentieth century.
Desmond U. Patton
Desmond Upton Patton is an American social work scholar at the University of Pennsylvania known for founding SAFELab and creating the CASM social media analysis method.
Devil Anse Hatfield
Devil Anse Hatfield (William Anderson Hatfield, 1839-1921) was the Logan County, West Virginia patriarch and timber merchant who led the Hatfields against the McCoys in the Tug Fork feud; indicted for the 1882 McCoy killings but never tried.
Dhangar
Dhangar (धनगर/धंगड़), pastoral shepherd caste-cluster of Maharashtra, India; 22 endogamous castes from a common stock; NT (C) 3.5% quota; ST-status demand rejected by Bombay High Court in 2024; distinct from the Dhangad Scheduled Tribe.
Dialog (organization)
Dialog (organization), also Dialog Society, is an invitation-only secret society founded in 2006 by Peter Thiel and Auren Hoffman, holding off-the-record elite retreats; its membership grading system and 222-person 2026 retreat roster leaked in June 2026.
Diaspora
Diaspora (Διασπορά) is a population that has spread from an original homeland to other countries while maintaining links to it. The term originally described the Jewish people.
Diaspora politics
Diaspora politics is the political engagement of emigrant communities with the politics of their homeland, including state policies such as external voting and diaspora institutions, now found in over half of UN member states.
Dinka people
Dinka people (self-name Jieng, Muonjang): Nilotic agro-pastoral people of the upper Nile in South Sudan, largest ethnic group, cattle-centered society and religion (Nhialic), prominent in Sudanese civil wars and the Kiir-Machar rivalry.
Disappearance of Frederick Valentich
Frederick Valentich disappearance: 20-year-old Australian pilot lost over Bass Strait on 21 October 1978 flying Cessna 182L VH-DSJ to King Island after reporting a UFO; cause officially undetermined, no wreckage found.
Disappearance of Kenny Veach
Kenny Veach (Michael Veach, screenname snakebitmgee) was a Las Vegas hiker who vanished November 2014 in Nevada's Sheep Range while seeking an M-shaped cave he described in a viral YouTube comment; his phone was found near a mine shaft and he was never found.
Disappearance of Nancy Guthrie
Disappearance of Nancy Guthrie: 84-year-old Tucson woman, mother of Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, last seen January 31, 2026 at her Catalina Foothills home; FBI released video of a masked armed suspect, case remains unsolved.
Disaster
Disaster: a serious disruption of community or societal functioning from hazardous events interacting with exposure, vulnerability and capacity (UNDRR/Sendai definition). Covers hazard-vulnerability framework, disaster studies history, mortality down 65% versus losses nearly tripled since the 1970s.
Disney family
The Disney family: descendants of Walt and Roy O. Disney, founders of the 1923 Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio. Includes Lillian Disney, daughters Diane Disney Miller and Sharon Disney Lund, the Roy + Patricia Disney Family Foundation, and a family stake of under 3% as of 2010.
Disposal of human corpses
Disposal of human corpses (body disposition): burial, cremation, embalming, and newer methods alkaline hydrolysis and human composting; worldwide scale, FTC Funeral Rule, environmental impacts, and country-by-country regulation.