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 ...
Mortality rate: A death rate. 1  The fetal mortality rate: The ratio of fetal deaths to the sum of the births (the live births + the fetal deaths) in that year.  The infant mortality rate: The number of children dying under a year of age divided by the number of live births that year.