1492: Birth Rate vs Fertility Rate Jan 12, 2019

Often used in statistical modeling, 'birth rate' and 'fertility rate' are both useful terms to describe demographics, but are not quite synonymous. A fertility rate is calculated to be the average number of children born to women ages 15-44 in their lifetimes. 'Birthrate' is often misused to describe this statistic, but it refers more specifically to the number of live births per 1,000 people in the population every year. Clearly these are used in similar situations, but the numbers look quite different.