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mortality rate

NOUN
  1. the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year

How To Use mortality rate In A Sentence

  • Thus the perinatal mortality ratio is the sum of the late fetal death ratio and the under-7-day mortality rate.
  • For these categories hospital 1 had the lowest perinatal mortality rates among the consultant units after adjustment for risk factors.
  • We also noted the degree of scatter in the correlation: some local authorities with comparable mortality rates have quite different rates of self reported ill health and vice versa.
  • Amongst very young chicks the mortality rate was quite high.
  • The city's most shocking statistic is its high infant mortality rate.
  • Prior to World War I, infant mortality rates in the workhouses were more than double the rate for the entire population.
  • The mortality rate has risen one-and-a-half times over the same period.
  • The post-war concern about population decline and the high infant mortality rate contributed to the introduction of the Midwives Act 1902.
  • The unsoundness of such reasoning can easily be brought into focus by considering the fact that historically, and in some places even today, the infant mortality rate has been very high.
  • Age-specific mortality rates in males and females are highly correlated, especially at midlife and the oldest ages.
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