Assignment #5 Siri Killi Bilben

Spain 87,79%

      ·      Birth rate: 10.4 births/1,000 population (2012 est.)

      ·      Infant mortality rate: total: 3.37 deaths/1,000 live births 
male: 3.71 deaths/1,000 live births 
female: 3.01 deaths/1,000 live births (2012 est.)

Italia96, 55%

      ·      Birth rate: 9.06 births/1,000 population (2012 est.)

      ·      Infant mortality rate: total: 3.36 deaths/1,000 live births 
male: 3.56 deaths/1,000 live births 
female: 3.14 deaths/1,000 live births (2012 est.)

Brazil 78,95%

      ·      Birth rate: 15.2 births/1,000 population (2012 est.)

      ·      Infant mortality rate: total: 20.5 deaths/1,000 live births 
male: 23.9 deaths/1,000 live births 
female: 16.9 deaths/1,000 live births (2012 est.)

Poland94, 34%

      ·      Birth rate: 9.96 births/1,000 population (2012 est.)

      ·      Infant mortality rate: total: 6.42 deaths/1,000 live births 
male: 7.12 deaths/1,000 live births 
female: 5.67 deaths/1,000 live births (2012 est.)

México86, 67%

      ·      Birth rate: 18.87 births/1,000 population (2012 est.)

      ·        Infant mortality rate: total: 16.77 deaths/1,000 live births 
male: 18.58 deaths/1,000 live births 
female: 14.86 deaths/1,000 live births (2012 est.)

Philippine 81,03%
·      Birth rate: 24.98 births/1,000 population (2012 est.)

·      Infant mortality rate: total: 18.75 deaths/1,000 live births 
male: 21.21 deaths/1,000 live births 
female: 16.18 deaths/1,000 live births (2012 est.)

The Philippine is the only of these countries that is on the top 100 on birth rates.

Not catlo: 
Norway 1,21%

·      Birth rate: 10.8 births/1,000 population (2012 est.)

·      Infant mortality rate: total: 3.5 deaths/1,000 live births 
male: 3.82 deaths/1,000 live births 
female: 3.15 deaths/1,000 live births (2012 est.)

Greece 1,04%

·      Birth rate: 9.08 births/1,000 population (2012 est.)

·      Infant mortality rate: total: 4.92 deaths/1,000 live births 
male: 5.41 deaths/1,000 live births 
female: 4.41 deaths/1,000 live births (2012 est.)

Singapore 3,87

·      Birth rate: 7.72 births/1,000 population (2012 est.)

·      Infant mortality rate: total: 2.65 deaths/1,000 live births 
male: 2.76 deaths/1,000 live births 
female: 2.53 deaths/1,000 live births (2012 est.)

Brazil, México and especially the Philippines is the countries with the highest birth rate, the three other catholic countries does not stand so much out from the countries with a very small amount off catholic. This makes it very hard to say that the religion have something to do with the birth rate it self. I been looking at a lot off different statistics trying to find one thing that can have an impact, the one thing that I was thinking about is women’s education level in the different countries. I found some articles online that say that this is the best predictor of how many children a women will have, and that education level is a indicator, higher education = fewer children. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/97facts/edu2birt.htm)

So by looking at the countries I have chosen I will say that the religion cannot be the reason. It is so many factors that have to be considered. Even doe I have not been looking at any of the African countries in this assignment, I want to mention them, because they are a good example of the other indicators like high poverty, high infant mortality rate and again big lack of education specially among women.

http://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?t=0&v=25&l=en

http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/country/sc1.html