death rate
Appearance
See also: deathrate
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (dated) deathrate
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]death rate (plural death rates)
- The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time (usually per 1000 persons per year when not otherwise specified).
- Alternative form: DR (initialism)
- Synonyms: mortality, mortality rate, MR
- Antonym: birth rate
Translations
[edit]the number of deaths
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- Zulu:amanombolo okufa kwabantu
References
[edit]- “death rate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “death rate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
