DEATH RATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does death rate mean? 

• DEATH RATE (noun)
  The noun DEATH RATE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: DEATH RATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEATH RATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

death rate; deathrate; fatality rate; mortality; mortality rate

Hypernyms ("death rate" is a kind of...):

rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "death rate"):

infant deathrate; infant mortality; infant mortality rate (the death rate during the first year of life)

neonatal mortality; neonatal mortality rate (the death rate during the first 28 days of life)

 Context examples 

These babies have higher death rates even into adolescence and beyond.

(New Genetic Discovery May Eventually End Premature Birth, VOA)

The death rate, or proportion of a given population that dies, during a specified time period, statistically modified to eliminate the effect of the various age distributions.

(Age-Adjusted Mortality Rate, NCI Thesaurus)

In medicine, a term also used for death rate, or the number of deaths in a certain group of people in a certain period of time.

(Mortality, NCI Dictionary)

"But, they exhibit higher death rates when exposed to environmental stressors.

(Defending against environmental stressors may shorten lifespan, National Institutes of Health)

The researchers found the biggest differences in death rates from kidney disease, respiratory disease, and cancer.

(Greenness around homes linked to lower mortality, NIH)

The report found that the highest death rates among children between the ages of 5 and 14 from both ambient and household air pollution occur in the African region.

(WAir Pollution a Health Risk for Children, Lisa Schlein/VOA)

But since the female death rate is much higher than the male death rate, the number of trees may still decline over the long run.

(Striped maple trees often change mating types, with females more likely to die, National Science Foundation)

The higher death rate in the aspirin-treated group was due primarily to a higher rate of cancer deaths.

(Daily low-dose aspirin found to have no effect on healthy life span in older people, National Institutes of Health)

But the evidence that chocolate can reduce cancer or death rates in people is still weak.

(Can Chocolate Really Be Good for You?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The NCI's Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States, 1950-94, shows the geographic patterns of cancer death rates in over 3,000 counties across the country over more than four decades.

(Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States, NCI Thesaurus)