(1) per capita birth rate (B/N) for US = 0.013 and per capita death rate (D/N) for US = 0.008 (Click here to return to the section of notes that sent you to this question.)
(2) Crude birth rate for US = approximately 13 per 1000 persons
(calculated from N of approximately 312 million persons, and approximately 4.1 million births [= (4.1 million / 312 million) X 1,000])
Crude death rate for US = 8 per 1000 persons
(calculated from N of approximately 312 million persons, and approximately 2.5 million deaths, as above for crude birth rate)
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(3) r = b-d therefore r =(0.013 - 0.008) = 0.005 for the US in 2011 (Click here to return to the section of notes that sent you to this question.)
(4) G = (b-d)*N = rN = 0.005 * 312 million = ~ 1.56 million persons = current population growth rate (net gain) for US per year (Click here to return to the section of notes that sent you to this question.)
(5) No, we are growing at about 1.56 million persons per year INDEPENDENT of immigration. This population growth rate of approximately 1.56 million persons per year is almost twice the net immigration into the US per year (which was estimated to be about 936,000 persons per year in 2011) (Click here to return to the section of notes that sent you to this question.)
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