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 ...
Fertility is the natural capacity to reproduce, and the fertility rate is the number of children an average woman gives birth to. Fertility is often confused with fecundity, which refers to the potential to reproduce offspring. Fertility rate is influenced by several factors including nutrition, culture, and lifestyle.