14906 IUPAC Gold Book - per capita rate of increase 10.1351/goldbook.14906 14906 current 1 Relative increase, \(r\), in the population per unit of time expressed per capita. \[r = b - m\] where \(b\) is per capita birth rate and \(m\) is per capita death rate. per capita birth rate https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/14904 per capita death rate https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/14905 population https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/14932 PAC, 2009, 81, 829. 'Glossary of terms used in ecotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2009)' on page 924 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-08-07-09) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14906/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14906/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14906/plain Citation: 'per capita rate of increase' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.14906 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-04-21T08:33:40+00:00