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BIRTH RATE
Calculated as the number of births in a given population during a particular year divided by the actual population and then multiplied by 1000 to give a birth rate per 1,000 of the population. The resulting figure is known as the ‘crude birth rate’. Generally, to observe trends and predict population growth, demographers (statistical analysts of population) use ‘fertility rates’ which relate the number of births not to total population but to the population of women in their child-bearing years (usually defined as from 15 to 49 years of age). See: BABY BOOM / FERTILITY RATE / .

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