Crude birth rate (CBR): the number of live births per year for each 1,000 people.

Total fertility rate (TFR): the average number of children who would be born per woman of that group in a country, assuming every woman lived through her childbearing years.

Anti-natalist policies: programs to decrease the number of births.

Pro-natalist policies: programs designed to increase the fertility rate.

Life expectancy (What’s China’s?): the number of years the average person will live. (increased significantly over the past decades)

Infant mortality rate: the number of children who die before their first birthday.

RNI (Rate of natural increase): The percentage at which a country’s population is growing or declining, without the impact of migration, RNI = (CBR-CDR)/10,

Immigrants: people who moved into the country,

Emigrants: people who moved out of the country,