death rate
noun
plural death rates
: the ratio between deaths and individuals in a specified population during a particular time period : the incidence of deaths in a given population during a defined time period (such as one year) that is typically expressed per 1000 or 100,000 individuals : mortality rate
an annual death rate of 15 deaths per 1000 people
Note: A crude death rate does not distinguish between specific causes of death or groups of individuals and measures the incidence of all deaths in a population during a given time period. More specific death rates are based on narrower categories of individuals or causes of death.
an infant death rate of 9 deaths per 1000 live births
Ebola is infamous for being highly contagious and causing death rates as high as 90 percent in some human outbreaks.
Brendan Borrell
Brendan Borrell
Example Sentences
There was a decline in the country's death rate after its health care improved. Lung cancer death rates are up. The death rate from accidents is rising.
Recent Examples on the Web For adults 65 to 79, the death rate was 1½ times that of the prior year. Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022 The death rate for people 65 and older is lower in Charleston than in other cities WalletHub looked at. Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 6 Sep. 2022 The death rate from gun violence was nearly 18 times higher in the United States than in the Netherlands in 2019, according to the University of Washington School of Medicine’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Claire Parker, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022 Both of those studies came after The San Diego Union-Tribune published a six-month investigation in 2019 that found that the death rate in local jails was far higher than other large California counties. Jeff Mcdonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2022 The death rate among Native American people was about 1.2 times higher than that of White people, while rates among Hispanic and Asian people were lower. Eliza Mackintosh, CNN, 20 July 2022 In a cohort of 769 patients studied from August 2020 to August 2021, the death rate for in-home patients was zero compared to the national average of 2% for inpatient care. Stephen Parodi And Ceci Connolly, STAT, 18 July 2022 But the death rate from covid-19 is still much higher than the mortality from influenza or other contagious diseases. Joel Achenbach, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2022 The death rate in Congo is about 1 in 10 people who catch it, whereas, in the United States, no one has died from monkeypox. Kelsee Majette, The Week, 15 June 2022 See More
Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022 The death rate for people 65 and older is lower in Charleston than in other cities WalletHub looked at. Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 6 Sep. 2022 The death rate from gun violence was nearly 18 times higher in the United States than in the Netherlands in 2019, according to the University of Washington School of Medicine’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Claire Parker, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022 Both of those studies came after The San Diego Union-Tribune published a six-month investigation in 2019 that found that the death rate in local jails was far higher than other large California counties. Jeff Mcdonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2022 The death rate among Native American people was about 1.2 times higher than that of White people, while rates among Hispanic and Asian people were lower. Eliza Mackintosh, CNN, 20 July 2022 In a cohort of 769 patients studied from August 2020 to August 2021, the death rate for in-home patients was zero compared to the national average of 2% for inpatient care. Stephen Parodi And Ceci Connolly, STAT, 18 July 2022 But the death rate from covid-19 is still much higher than the mortality from influenza or other contagious diseases. Joel Achenbach, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2022 The death rate in Congo is about 1 in 10 people who catch it, whereas, in the United States, no one has died from monkeypox. Kelsee Majette, The Week, 15 June 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1849, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
death rate
noun
: the ratio between deaths and individuals in a specified population and time period : the incidence of deaths in a given population during a defined time period (as one year) that is typically expressed per 1000 or 100,000 individuals : mortality rate
an annual death rate of 715 deaths per 100,000 individuals
Note: A crude death rate does not distinguish between specific causes of death or groups of individuals and measures the incidence of all deaths in a population during a given time period. More specific death rates are based on narrower categories of individuals or causes of death.
an infant death rate of 9 deaths per 1000 live births
The pravastatin group had a 24% lower death rate than the placebo group. Harvard Health Letter
Harvard Health LetterEbola is infamous for being highly contagious and causing death rates as high as 90 percent in some human outbreaks. Brendan Borrell, Scientific American
Brendan Borrell, Scientific American