Global birth rates
Definition
Global birth rates refer to the number of live births per 1,000 people per year on a global scale.
Analogy
Imagine you're baking cookies for an international cookie festival. Each batch you make represents 1,000 cookies (or people). The number of chocolate chip cookies (or newborns) you add each time is like the global birth rate.
Related terms
Fertility Rate: The average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime in a population.
Infant Mortality Rate: The number of deaths under one year of age occurring among the live births in a given geographical area during a given year per 1,000 live births occurring among the population of the given geographical area during the same year.
Population Growth Rate: The increase in a country's population during a period of time usually expressed as percentage increase per year.
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