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Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.
Alcee Hastings

Meaning of "mortality rate" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MORTALITY RATE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MORTALITY RATE

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Mortality 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 MORTALITY RATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

mortality 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.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MORTALITY RATE

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WORDS THAT END LIKE MORTALITY RATE

accurate
at any rate
basal metabolic rate
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infection rate
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unemployment rate
VAT rate

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

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Translation of «mortality rate» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MORTALITY RATE

Find out the translation of mortality rate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of mortality 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 «mortality 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

mortality rate
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मृत्यु दर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

معدل وفيات
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

মৃত্যুর 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

Sterblichkeit
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

Tingkat kematian
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tỷ lệ tử vong
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இறப்பு விகிதம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मृत्यु 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 mortalității
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ποσοστό θνησιμότητας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sterftesyfer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dödlighet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dødelighet
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about mortality rate

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2 QUOTES WITH «MORTALITY RATE»

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Alcee Hastings
Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.
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R. D. Laing
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MORTALITY RATE»

Discover the use of mortality rate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mortality rate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Basic Epidemiology
The death rate (or crude mortality rate) for all deaths or a specific cause of death is calculated as follows: Crudemortalityrate = Numberofdeathsduringaspecifiedperiod (×10n) Number of persons at risk of dying during thesameperiod The main ...
R. Bonita, R. Beaglehole, Tord Kjellström, 2006
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Cengage Advantage Books: Sustaining the Earth
Another factor is the infant mortality rate—the number of children per 1,000 live births who die before they reach 1 year of age. In areas with low infant mortality rates, people tend to have fewer children because fewer children die at an early ...
G. Miller, 2008
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The World Factbook 2013: (CIA's 2012 Edition)
By intelligence officials, for intelligent people
‎2013
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Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of ...
Although present in America since the settling of Jamestown, it did not acquire its deadly reputation until it attacked heavily crowded cities. As early as the 1810s Boston, for example, experienced a tuberculosis mortality rate of 472 per 100,000  ...
Judith Walzer Leavitt, Ronald L. Numbers, 1997
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China's Changing Population
During the 1950's three Chinese sources estimated that before 1949 or "during the period of Guomindang control" the national infant mortality rate was approximately 2.00 deaths in the first year of life per thousand live births.6 Two Soviet ...
Judith Banister, 1987
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Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Preventive Medicine
Box 2–1 Calculation of Cumulative Mortality Risk in a Population with a Constant Yearly Mortality Rate Part 1 Beginning Data (see Fig. 2-6) Population C in Fig. 2- 6 had an even mortality risk throughout the year and a total yearly mortality risk ...
‎2007
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Canada's Jews: A Social and Economic Study of Jews in Canada ...
The Infantile mortality rate for the rural districts of Canada in 1936 was 68.6 per 1,000, whilst the rate for the urban element during the same period was 63.9 per 1,000, from which it will be seen that the infantile mortality rate in Canadian urban  ...
Louis Rosenberg, Morton Weinfeld, 1993
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Socio-economic Correlates of Mortality in Japan and ASEAN
TABLE 12.3 SI—ary Table of Multiple Regreaaien of [cane-1c hriabloe (INC. mm] on Crude Death Rate, Infant Mortality Rate, Hen-natal Mortality Rate and Maternal MortalityI Rate Crude Death Infant Mortality Nan-natal Mortality Maternal ...
Shui Meng Ng, 1986
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Mastery of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Using this technique, the aneurysm sac was not resected from the surrounding tissue; therefore, bleeding was reduced. This simple technical modification immediately dropped the mortality rate by more than 25%. In the ensuing 30 years, ...
Gerald B. Zelenock, 2006
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Public Health 101: Healthy People-Healthy Populations
When most people who develop a disease die from the disease, as is the situation with lung cancer, the mortality rate and the incidence rates are very similar. Thus, if the incidence rate of lung cancer is 100 per 100,000 per year, the mortality ...
Richard K. Riegelman, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MORTALITY RATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mortality rate is used in the context of the following news items.
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Leon County black infant mortality rates increase
Leon County saw an increase in its infant mortality rate last year fueled by a bump in black infant deaths, according to new data released by the ... «Tallahassee.com, Jul 15»
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Infant Mortality Rates on the Rise for Blacks and Hispanics
The report shows, "The infant mortality rate decreased to 6.0 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2014... There were increases in the Hispanic ... «WTXL ABC 27, Jul 15»
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Younger Black Men With Breast Cancer Have Higher Mortality Rate
Dr. Sineshaw: Male breast cancer is a rare disease, and its incidence rate is increasing. Younger black men have a higher breast cancer ... «Medical Research News and Interviews on MedicalResearch.com, Jul 15»
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Program pairs nurses with first-time moms to improve lives
Indiana's infant mortality rate is 45th in the U.S. That is why a Marion County program is working hard to improve the lives of mothers and their ... «WRTV Indianapolis, Jul 15»
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Delaware cancer mortality rate declines
Delaware's drop in the cancer mortality rate was even better than the national reduction in cancer mortality, which is down 13.1 percent. «Newsworks.org, Jul 15»
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Health Department Launches Initiative To Combat Infant Mortality
MEMPHIS, TN (localmemphis.com) -- The Shelby County Health Department has a major initiative underway to reduce the infant mortality rate ... «Local Memphis, Jul 15»
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Attack on high infant mortality rate in portions of Kansas
Wyandotte's infant mortality rate is also one of the worst in the state. But more than two years after receiving a $300,000 grant to get at the root ... «Salina Post, Jul 15»
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Wyandotte County Attacks High Infant Mortality Rate
... to statistics from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Wyandotte's infant mortality rate is also one of the worst in the state. «KCUR, Jul 15»
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State of Children: Pakistani child mortality rates nearly twice as high …
In 1990, the proportion of children who died before the age of one – the infant mortality rate – was 10.6%, and those who did not make it to the ... «The Express Tribune, Jul 15»
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Exceptionally deadly
Over the past quarter of a century, however, America's maternal-mortality rate has been creeping back up (see chart). By 2013 the rate had ... «The Economist, Jul 15»

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