death rate
noun
Note: A crude death rate does not distinguish between specific causes of death or groups of individuals and measures the incidence of all deaths in a population during a given time period. More specific death rates are based on narrower categories of individuals or causes of death.
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Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
This investment has led to advances in cancer treatment and prevention that helped reduce the overall U.S. cancer death rate by 33% from 1991 to 2021.
—Deborah Fuller, The Conversation, 28 Mar. 2025
But perhaps more importantly, the AHA has used those resources to invest $6 billion in health research since 1949, more than any U.S. organization except the federal government, while helping to cut death rates from cardiovascular diseases in half.
—Ian Thomas, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2025
The problem started with the pandemic; although road traffic dried up, the death rate leapt by 20 percent.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 9 Apr. 2025
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“Death rate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20rate. Accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
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death rate
nounNote: A crude death rate does not distinguish between specific causes of death or groups of individuals and measures the incidence of all deaths in a population during a given time period. More specific death rates are based on narrower categories of individuals or causes of death.
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