mortality rate

English

Noun

mortality rate (plural mortality rates)

The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.

The mortality rate of people aged 50 or more that smoke is much higher than the one of non-smokers in the same age group.

Under-five mortality rate is the probability that a newborn baby will die before reaching age five, if subject to current age-specific mortality rates.

Synonyms

death rate

Antonyms

birth rate

Translations

the number of deaths

Chinese:
Mandarin: 死亡率 (zh) (sǐwánglǜ)
Czech: úmrtnost f
Finnish: kuolevuus (fi)
French: taux de mortalité (fr) m
German: Sterberate f
Japanese: 死亡率 (ja) (しぼうりつ, shibōritsu)

Norwegian:
Bokmål: dødsrate (no) m, dødelighet (no) m, f, mortalitet m

Nynorsk: dødsrate m, dødelegheit f, døyelegheit f, mortalitet m
Portuguese: (taxa de) mortalidade f
Russian: сме́ртность (ru) f (smértnostʹ)
Serbo-Croatian: smrtnost (sh) f

References

mortality rate at OneLook Dictionary Search
mortality rate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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