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The birth rate in Namibia is 35 babies to every 1000 people. In 2001, the country had a population of about 1,800,000 people. How many babies were there?
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Let 'x' represent the number of babies for a population of 1,800,000 people
35 : 1000 = x : 1800000
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x = 63,000 babies
There were 63,000 babies in the year of 2001.