exists and is an alternate of . When taking blood pressure there are two readings, eg 120/70. The first reading (120) is the systolic blood pressure and the second reading (70) is the diastolic blood pressure. The systolic blood pressure is always higher than the diastolic.
Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people). The value for Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) in Indonesia was 18.79 as of 2013. As the graph below shows, over the past 53 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 44.58 in 1960 and a minimum value of 18.79 in 2013. Definition: Crude birth rate indicates the number of live births occurring during the year, per 1,000 population estimated at midyear.
In much of the developing world, demographic change has contributed to economic growth and reductions in poverty. Over the last 40 years, women are having fewer children, from 4.7 children per woman in 1970 to an average of 2.5 children today. Total fertility rates (TFRs) range from 1.1 in Taiwan to 7.4 in Niger. In 1970, just under one-half (48 percent) of the world's population was younger than 20, a nearly equal percentage was ages 20 to 64, and only 5 percent was 65 and older.