Practice question · Numerical answer
A country has a birth rate of 22 and a death rate of 8 per 1,000, and net migration adds 2 per 1,000. Compute its total growth rate as a percentage.
Hints
- Natural increase: (22 − 8) per 1,000.
- Add migration: 16 per 1,000 = ?%
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1.6 (answers within ±0.05 count)
Why
a year. Rule of 70: doubling in about 44 years, the kind of number housing planners need before the babies are born.
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