The intrinsic rate of natural increase is a measure of the:

Birth rate - Death rate

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Rate of population increase per capita

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Carrying capacity of the environment

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(Births - Deaths)/generation time

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(Births - Deaths)/generation time

The intrinsic rate of natural increase is a measure of the rate of increase in populations that reproduce within discrete time intervals and possess generations that do not overlap. This is also known as the Malthusian parameter. Very simply, this rate can be understood as the number of births minus the number of deaths per generation time or (birth rate - death rate). This is also the (birth-death) per generation time

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(a) 0.11/year

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