That’s just not true. Death rate, as the name implies, is a rate—the population that died in this year divided by the average total population. If “death rate” is 100%, then “birth rate” is 100% by the same reasoning, because 100% of people were born.
Ah, “actual” threw me off. So you mean something close to “The lifetime projected probability of being born(/dying) for people who came into existence during the last year”.
That’s just not true. Death rate, as the name implies, is a rate—the population that died in this year divided by the average total population. If “death rate” is 100%, then “birth rate” is 100% by the same reasoning, because 100% of people were born.
That depends on whether fetuses are people …
If yes, the actual birth rate is around 80%. http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/Data_Stats/Abortion.htm
I wouldn’t consider abortion a “birth”, per se.
Exactly, so only people who aren’t aborted count as born, in which case the birth rate is 80%.
Ah, “actual” threw me off. So you mean something close to “The lifetime projected probability of being born(/dying) for people who came into existence during the last year”.