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political arithmetic en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (archaic, historical, uncountable) The demographic statistics of a country or state.
    • I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations. 1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations:
    • The most basic effect of political arithmetic was namely to establish that a nation's strength depended above all on the number of inhabitants [...]. 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 221: