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We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.
Bjorn Lomborg

Meaning of "death rate" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DEATH RATE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEATH RATE

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Death rate is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DEATH RATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

death rate

Mortality rate

Mortality rate is a measure of the number of deaths in a population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time. Mortality rate is typically expressed in units of deaths per 1,000 individuals per year; thus, a mortality rate of 9.5 in a population of 1,000 would mean 9.5 deaths per year in that entire population, or 0.95% out of the total. It is distinct from morbidity rate, which refers to the number of individuals in poor health during a given time period or the number of newly appearing cases of the disease per unit of time. The term "mortality" is also sometimes inappropriately used to refer to the number of deaths among a set of diagnosed hospital cases for a disease or injury, rather than for the general population of a country or ethnic group. This disease mortality statistic is more precisely referred to as "case fatality rate". One distinguishes: ▪ The crude death rate, the total number of deaths per year per 1,000 people. As of July 2009 the crude death rate for the whole world is about 8.37 per 1,000 per year according to the current CIA World Factbook.

Definition of death rate in the English dictionary

The definition of death rate in the dictionary is the ratio of deaths in a specified area, group, etc, to the population of that area, group, etc Also called : mortality rate.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEATH RATE

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WORDS THAT END LIKE DEATH RATE

accurate
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VAT rate

Synonyms and antonyms of death rate in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «death rate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEATH RATE

Find out the translation of death rate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of death rate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «death rate» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

死亡率
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tasa de mortalidad
570 millions of speakers

English

death rate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मृत्यु दर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

معدل الوفيات
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

смертность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

taxa de mortalidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মৃত্যর হার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

taux de mortalité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

kadar kematian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sterbeziffer
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

死亡率
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

사망률
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Angka kematian
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

số tử vong
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இறப்பு விகிதம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मृत्यू दर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ölüm oranı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tasso di mortalità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

śmiertelność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

смертність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

rata de deces
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ποσοστό θανάτου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sterftesyfer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dödstal
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dødsraten
5 millions of speakers

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The term «death rate» is regularly used and occupies the 57.397 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about death rate

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2 QUOTES WITH «DEATH RATE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word death rate.
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Jim Lehrer
The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.
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Bjorn Lomborg
We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the number is roughly constant, and we manage to deal much better with them over time. Globally, the death rate from catastrophes has dropped about fifty-fold over the past century.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEATH RATE»

Discover the use of death rate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to death rate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Geography Matters: 1
Why is the population of the world going up sm High birth rate + Low death rate - > Population grows fast — Birth rates are getting lower but are more difficult to. To understand this, you have to think of the population of a country as a system, ...
‎2001
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Fire Death Rate Trends; An International Perspective
The most current comparative data (1992) reveals that the United States, while having substantially reduced its fire death rate, is still 30 percent to 50 percent higher than its peer nations, or those countries analysts consider most like the ...
US Fire Administration
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Elmira: Death Camp of the North
Clearly, something went wrong in Elmira. The culmination of ten years of research, this book traces the story of what happened.
Michael Horigan, 2005
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Population in Asia
To account for differences in population size, demographers often use the concepts of crude birth rate and crude death rate. The crude birth (death) rate is the number of births (deaths) divided by the size of the population and multiplied by ...
Warren C. Sanderson, Jee-Peng Tan, 1995
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Risk of Death in Canada: What We Know and how We Know it
Figure 4.12 Infectious Death Rate by Age, Both, 1930-1990 77 Figure 4. 13 Cancer Deaths by Age, Males, 1994 80 Figure 4.14 Cancer Death Rate by Age, Males, 1994 80 Figure 4.15 Cancer Deaths by Age, Females, 1994 81 Figure 4.
Simon Thomas, Steve E. Hrudey, 1997
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The National Halothane Study: A Study of the Possible ...
In the low-death-rate group, the rate changes from 0.0004 to 0.0565 in the nonemergency operations; the effect of ... In the middle-death-rate group, a similarly strong gradient is seen, and the effect of standardization is to reduce the apparent ...
National Research Council (U.S.). Subcommittee on the National Halothane Study, John P. Bunker, 1969
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100 Questions & Answers About Anorexia Nervosa
In fact, anorexia has the highest premature death rate of any mental illness, with estimates of fatality occurring in 5–20% of cases (the aggregate death rate is estimated at 0.56% per year or 5.6% per decade).TheAmericanJournal ofPsychiatry ...
Sari Fine Shepphird, 2009
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China's Changing Population
It is likely that the crude death rate was close to 40 per thousand population in 1930 and stayed that high or higher during most of the 1930's and 1940's, in part because of active warfare between Japan and China and between the Communist ...
Judith Banister, 1987
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Mortality statistics
Chorea, deaths from, 99, 166; bv age, 204, 224, 508; hy color, 204, 22Í, 508; hy sex, 204, 221, 508; in urhan and rural districts, 166. death rate, 99. Chvluria, deaths from, 100, 168; hy age, 210, 224, 514; hy color, 210, 514; hy sex, 210, 514 ; ...
United States. Bureau of the Census, 1929
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The Black Death, 1346-1353: The Complete History
The first paperback edition of this unique and shocking guide to the Black Death in Europe.
Ole Jørgen Benedictow, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEATH RATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term death rate is used in the context of the following news items.
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N.J. heroin overdose death rate is triple the soaring U.S. rate
An analysis by NJ Advance Media shows that the heroin overdose death rate in New Jersey is more than triple the rate released by the CDC ... «NJ.com, Jul 15»
2
NJ heroin overdose death rate triple national rate
In a report by NJ.com, the heroin overdose death rate in NJ is more than triple the national rate. To put that in perspective, heroin kills more ... «Asbury Park Press, Jul 15»
3
The 3 hot spots in the US with the highest colon cancer death rates
The colon cancer death rate increased by 3.5 percent every year for black men in that region between 1970 and 1990, and has since remained ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
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Hospital weekend death rate 'not just NHS problem'
Heightened mortality rates for weekend admissions are not just a problem for hospitals in England and are also evident in Australia, US and the ... «Nursing Times, Jul 15»
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Death Rate Climbs With Each Cardiometabolic Condition
The risk of death was similar among patients with a history of diabetes, stroke, or myocardial infarction (MI), and the risk was significantly higher ... «Monthly Prescribing Reference, Jul 15»
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Study Says Mammograms Don't Reduce Breast Cancer Death Rate
Mammograms have been touted as one of the effective measures of preventing and managing breast cancer. However, according to a recent ... «Youth Health Magzine, Jul 15»
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Japan's anti-cancer steps likely to miss their targets
The government has set a target of "reducing the death rate for cancer patients aged less than 75 by 20 percentage points over 10 years up to ... «China Post, Jul 15»
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Little difference in death rates of health scheme users: NHSO
THE NATIONAL Health Security Office has confirmed there is not an unusually high death rate among Universal Coverage (UC) scheme ... «The Nation, Jul 15»
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US Cancer Death Rate Down, But Number of Deaths Rising
"The overall cancer death rate continues to decrease in men and women of both races, with the exception of melanoma." Aging and Minority ... «Medscape, Jul 15»
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Tower Hamlets has lowest death rate in Britain
Tower Hamlets has the lowest death rate in the country, with just 0.17% of the population dying in the first five months of 2015. According to a ... «The Wharf, Jul 15»

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