mortality rate
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- noun
- /mɔrˈtælɪti reɪt/
- Specialized
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tasa de mortalidad
- Research indicates that the mortality rate for heart disease is higher among older adults.
- infant mortality rate
- maternal mortality rate
- perinatal mortality rate
So you've got this pandemic, No one knows what the mortality rate is.
- So you've got this pandemic, No one knows what the mortality rate is.
- I think this is, you know, what we have is something with a very low mortality rate and high contagion.
- It was very unpleasant and dangerous work and it was a high mortality rate in any of the mining regions in the Roman Empire.
- So just to give you some context on South Memphis, the infant mortality rate is higher than most or many third world nations.
- So saying it's an old people problem, they were dying as a multiple of their mortality rate.
- You get different numbers, but they don't all make it so the ones treated with so bare though, we'll cut that mortality rate right in half.
Examples
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And in spite of our vulnerability and our high mortality rate, there are still quite a few of us.
Fiction book (2001) -
Over the 10 years to 2005, the 6-month mortality rate has decreased from 26% to 14%.
Academic text (2011) -
- This way has a far lower mortality rate.
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Pretty high mortality rate in the old business.
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The mortality rate is 100 percent.
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My boss says that retired football players have a high mortality rate.
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We have the seventh highest mortality rate in the world.
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The mortality rate has risen to 56%.
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There were no statistical differences in mortality rate between the randomised groups.
Academic text (1999) -
Mucormycosis is characterized by severe infection with rapid progression and a high mortality rate.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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The number of deaths in a group of people over time
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The number of people who die in a population each year shown per 1,000 people
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Number of people who die in a group each year per 1,000 people
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines 'mortality' (deaths in a population) with 'rate' (frequency per unit), so its meaning — the number of deaths per unit of population per time — is directly and compositionally derivable from the constituents. This is a common, cross-linguistic measurement pattern (noun + rate) and would be understandable to a learner who knows both words, despite being somewhat technical.
Etymology
Mortality rate comes from simple counting: mortality means death and rate means how often or how many in a group. So it is the 'number of deaths' in a group of people, which is why we use it to show how common death is in a population.