Smoking Statistics. 1  About a third of the male adult global population smokes. 2  Smoking related-diseases kill one in 10 adults globally, or cause four million deaths. By 2030, if current trends continue, smoking will kill one in six people. 3  Every eight seconds, someone dies from tobacco use.
The birth rate (technically, births/population rate) is the total number of live births per 1,000 of a population in a year.[1] The rate of births in a population is calculated in several ways: live births from a universal registration system for births, deaths, and marriages; population counts from a census, and estimation through specialized ...
The fertility rate measures the number of births occurring per 1,000 women between the ages of 15 and 44 in a particular year; birth rates refer to this measure within particular age groups.ge-specific birth rates are defined as the total number of births per 1,000 women in a specific age group (between ages 15 and 44). 2 Data for estimates before 1980 are based on the race/ethnicity of the child, from 1980 on estimates are based on the race/ethnicity of the mother.