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death rate Definition

death rate

noun

the number of deaths per year per thousand of population in a given community, area, or group: sometimes other units of time or population are used

death rate Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • standardize: The suitability of different measures of standardized hospital death rates.
  • have: Larvae which consume high levels of the pollen do grow poorly and have a higher death rate.

Noun used with modifier

  • hospital: The suitability of different measures of standardized hospital death rates.

Adjective modifier

  • premature: The number of local authority areas where premature death rates are above the national average has risen by 40 per cent since 1991.
  • high: Larvae which consume high levels of the pollen do grow poorly and have a higher death rate.
  • annual: Although no comprehensive national statistics have been compiled on annual death rates due to unsafe abortions, the picture is grim.
  • low: In both the UK and the USA better access to GPs has been shown to be associated with lower death rates.

Preposition: in

  • world: Yet Johannesburg has one of the highest death rates in the world due to HIV and AIDS.