(11-24-2011, 01:29 AM)kandrathe Wrote: The number of poor in the USA is ~39 million. The population of Canada is ~34.1 million. Birth rate (2009) in Canada is 10.28 per 1000. The birth rate in the US is 34.3 per 1000.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications...os/us.html
13.83 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)
Also, I think your birthrate calculation for Canada is off as well.
StatCan "Births, estimates, by province and territory"
386,013 births in a population of 34,482,779
My math might be fuzzy but I work that out to 11.19 births/1,000 population.
It's a lot closer then you made it out to be.