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 ...
1 The crude birth rate, the annual number of live births per 1,000 people. 2  The general fertility rate, the annual number of live births per 1,000 women of childbearing age (often taken to be from 15 to 49 years old, but sometimes from 15 to 44).