death rate
nounDefinition of death rate
: the ratio between deaths and individuals in a specified population and time
Examples of death rate in a Sentence
There was a decline in the country's death rate after its health care improved.
Lung cancer death rates are up.
The death rate from accidents is rising.
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By comparison, Santa Anita’s racing death rate for the recent meet was 3.17. — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, "Horse trainer Jerry Hollendorfer fights ban in court after spate of deaths," 18 July 2019 But the continually increasing U.S. death rate is expected to counteract that financial loss. — Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, "As trends shift, Colorado cemeteries and funeral homes look to inject life into the commemoration of death," 28 July 2019 Though Del Mar had the nation’s lowest death rate last year — 0.79 per 1,000 starts — any death is troubling, and a freak training accident killed two horses here July 18, just after opening day. — Los Angeles Times, "Postcard From L.A.: Del Mar always brings out the social crowd. This year, protesters also showed up," 25 July 2019 Last year, Del Mar only had three racing deaths, translating into a rate of 0.79 deaths per 1,000 starts, the lowest death rate among major tracks nationally. — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, "Horse trainer Jerry Hollendorfer fights ban in court after spate of deaths," 18 July 2019 Such is the pervasiveness of the opioid overdose problem in Connecticut, where the state’s per-capita death rate ranks among the 10 highest in the country. — Josh Kovner, courant.com, "Against push of opioid epidemic, traveling forum brings free Narcan kits, treatment updates to public; next stop is Kent church with Rep. Jahana Hayes," 6 July 2019 Maxwell agrees that these strategies, as well as better control and prescribing of opioid painkillers, have helped curb rates of fatal opioid overdoses, which has helped bring down the total drug overdose death rate. — Jamie Ducharme, Time, "New Government Estimates Offer Early Hope That Drug Overdose Deaths Are Waning," 11 June 2019 Typically, human death rate starts high in infancy, falls during early years, climbing again in people’s thirties and shooting up in people’s seventies and eighties. — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, "How Long Can Humans Really Live?," 1 July 2018 Switzerland does grapple with gun death rates higher than European neighbors, the vast majority of it suicide. — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, "Switzerland has lots of guns. But its gun culture takes different path from US.," 7 Mar. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'death rate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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