Human demographers often use crude birth and death rates, which are the number of births ("B") or deaths ("D") per 1000 people.
Check yourself #2: Using the data for the US in 2011 given in the preceeding section, what were the crude birth and death rates for the US for 2011? (Click on "Answer s" here to check yourself.)
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