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 ...
RATES. A rate is a measure of the frequency with which an event occurs in a defined population in a defined time (e.g., number of deaths per hundred thousand Canadians in one year). It has a time dimension, whereas a PROPORTION (e.g., number of Canadians with cancer divided by the total population) does not. RATIOS.