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>India has reduced cases to less than one per 1,000 live births, which the W.H.O. considers “elimination as a public health problem." One in one thousand of ov
by rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
>India has reduced cases to less than one per 1,000 live births, which the W.H.O. considers “elimination as a public health problem."
One in one thousand of over a billion is still a rather large number. Shouldn't the WHO use proportional statistics for populations over, say, 100 million?
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago"One billion" is not the live birth rate.
- rm_-rf_slash 11y agoAt the risk of being further downvoted: no shit.
- trextrex 11y agoI'm not sure if you're implying that the population growth rate of India is very high, but if you are that's not true anymore. It's actually very close to replacement levels with parts of India where it's actually below replacement levels [1] [1] http://qz.com/317518/finally-indias-population-growth-is-slowing-down/ http://qz.com/317518/finally-indias-population-growth-is-slo...