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a comparison to be statistically significant, numbers must be adjusted for the size of the population being studied. For example, the fertility rate is calculated as the ratio of births among women of childbearing age to the total number of women in that age range. If these adjustments were not made, we would not know whether a nation with a higher birth or death rate has a population with more women of childbearing age or more births per eligible woman.

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