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mortality rate
[ mawr-tal-i-tee reyt ]
noun
- the relative frequency of deaths in a specific population during a specified time, often cited as the percentage of human deaths during a public health crisis, or of wildlife deaths due to environmental perils:
Patients over the age of 80 had the highest mortality rate during the last flu season.
The mortality rate of the bald eagle falls to about 25 percent after the first year of life.
mortality rate
noun
- another term for death rate
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of mortality rate1
Example Sentences
Animals are arriving in “horrendous shape” and with a high mortality rate compared with years past, Warner said.
Researchers said the mortality rate had more than doubled over the past decade and was now among the highest in Europe.
He told Colombian radio station RCN that the current outbreak had been particularly lethal "with a mortality rate of nearly 50% among those infected".
RSV causes 42,000 hospitalizations a year in adults ages 50 to 64 in the U.S., as well as increased mortality rates.
The results are indisputable: The U.S. has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the developed world, and it is worse in states with entrenched Republican majorities.
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