death rate
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2.7
- noun
- /dɛθ reɪt/
- Specialized
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tasa de mortalidad
- Experts estimate that the death rate due to heart disease is about 180 deaths per 100,000 people annually.
- infant death rate
- high death rate
- crude death rate
Since that happened, the overdose rate, death rate has doubled.
- Since that happened, the overdose rate, death rate has doubled.
- We've seen death rates down in single figures, which is good.
- You know, the, you know, the violent death rate over hundreds of years have gone down a lot.
- They're the young death rate for people who pursue that path is incredibly high.
- But the decline in birth rates historically has lagged the decline in death rates.
- But if you look at the death rate, it was high, but not like at the crisis level.
Examples
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The Urban League recognized the high death rates among women who did not receive adequate medical care.
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The lowest death rate in the world.
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But when you cut the death rate in half, what happens?
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But if you look at the death rate, it was high, but not like at the crisis level.
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Does anybody know where the death rate is at its worst ?
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The lower estimates of the death rate are found in the local press.
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And the fact is that the difference in death rates is much smaller than the difference in fertility rates.
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Every year, the death rate lags further behind the birth rate.
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In the mid term, it's these treatments that can cut the death rate down potentially dramatically.
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Native populations in the United States had a death rate four times as high as all other racial/ethnic groups combined.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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5.9
The number of deaths in a group of people over time
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3.8
The number of people who die in a group each year per 1,000 people
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4.9
Number of people who die in a group each year per 1,000 people
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'number of deaths per population per time' is directly and compositionally derived from 'death' (end of life) + 'rate' (frequency per unit). This noun+noun measure pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English composition, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Death rate comes from the simple idea of counting how many deaths happen in a group over time. Because rate means the number per people or per year, the phrase came to mean 'the number of deaths in a population during a period'.