Death Rate

Definition: Death Rate

Death Rate

Noun

1. The ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Social Sciences

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Death Rate

Crosswords: Death Rate

Health

For people coinfected with HIV and MDR-TB, the death rate may be as high as 80 percent. (references)

But the asthma death rate and hospitalization rate for blacks are three times the rate of whites. (references)

African-Americans between the ages of 45 and 55 have four to five times the stroke death rate of whites. (references)

Business

The Argentine female death rate due to coronary illnesses is said to be the highest in all the Americas. (references)

The Huai River Basin is a main water source for this densely populated area. The Henan Provincial Medical College has reported that 70% of the river is wastewater, resulting in a regional death rate that is 30% higher than the nation's average. (references)

Human Rights

Kenya

Disease is widespread in prisons, and the death rate is high. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

In 2000 the Director of Penitentiary Administration stated that the death rate at the MACA had dropped due to improvements to the sanitation and health care systems. (references)

Burundi

A local NGO estimated that the prison population was more than 9,300. With the return of the ICRC, the death rate in the prisons containing 80 percent of all inmates dropped from 2.3 deaths per 10,000 per day in 1999 to 0.4 deaths per 10,000 in 2000. The death rate remained the same during the year. (references)

Worker Rights

China

According to the Tibet Information Network (TIN), the prisoner death rate among Tibetans is 1 in 46; deaths of at least 41 Tibetan political prisoners since 1989 can be attributed to severe abuse under detention; at least 20 of these prisoners had been in Lhasa's Drapchi prison. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "death rate": crude death rate ♦ general death rate ♦ infant death rate. Additional references.

Albanian

vdekshmëri (mortality), përqindje e vdekjeve. (various references)

Arabic 

‏نسبة الوفيات (mortality). (various references)

Bulgarian 

смъртност (mortality). (various references)

Czech

úmrtnost. (various references)

Danish

dødskvotient (mortality rate), dødshyppighed (mortality rate), dødelighedsprocent (mortality rate), dødelighedskvotient (mortality rate), dødelighed (mortality), mortalitetsforhold (mortality rate). (various references)

Dutch

sterftecijfer (mortality, mortality rate), mortaliteitscijfer (mortality rate). (various references)

French

taux de mortalité (crude death rate, general death rate). (various references)

German

sterblichkeitsziffer (mortality, mortality rate, rate of mortality), sterberate (mortality, mortality rate). (various references)

Greek 

ποσοστό θνησιμότητας,ποσοστό θανάτων (mortality rate), ποσοστό θνησιμότητας (mortality rate), ποσοστό θανάτων (mortality rate), Θνησιμότητα (mortality rate), θνησιμότητα (mortality). (various references)

Hebrew 

שעור תמות�". (various references)

Hungarian

halálozási arány (fatality rate, mortality rate). (various references)

Italian

tasso di mortalit� (mortality, mortality rate), quoziente di mortalit� , mortalit� (death casualty, drain, lethality, moribundity, mortality). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

死亡率 (mortality). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しぼうりつ (mortality). (various references)

Manx

mortleeaght. (various references)

Pig Latin

eathday ateray.(various references)

Portuguese

taxa de mortalidade (death toll, mortality rate, mortally). (various references)

Romanian

mortalitate. (various references)

Russian 

смертность (death-rate, mortality, mortality rate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mortalitet (mortality). (various references)

Spanish

índice de mortalidad. (various references)

Swedish

dödlighet (deathrate, fatality, mortality). (various references)

Turkish

ölüm oranı (mortality). (various references)

Turkmen 

цlьm derejesi. (various references)

Ukranian 

смертність (mortality), показник смертності. (various references)

Misspellings

"Death Rate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deathrate. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: threated.

-2 letters: aerated, earthed, hearted, hetaera, theater, theatre, thereat, treated.

-3 letters: adhere, aerate, aether, dearth, derate, hatred, hatted, hatter, header, heated, heater, hereat, ratted, redate, reheat, retted, tarted, teared, teated, tether, tetrad, thread, threat.

-4 letters: aahed, ahead, areae, arete, arhat, attar, dater, death, derat, deter, eared, earth, eater, ether, hared, hated, hater, heard, heart, heder, rated, rathe, reata, tared, tatar, tater, teeth, tetra, there, theta, three, trade, tread, treat, treed.

-5 letters: area, dare, dart, data, date, dear, deer, deet, dere, drat, dree, eath, haar, hade, haed, haet, hard, hare, hart, hate, head, hear, heat, heed, herd, here, rate, rath, read, rede, reed, rete, rhea, tahr, tare, tart, tate, tear, teat, teed, teth, thae, that, thee, trad, tree, tret.

+1 letter: reattached, tetrahedra, tracheated.

+2 letters: tetrahedral, ultraheated.

+3 letters: fainthearted, greathearted.

+4 letters: rehabilitated, tetartohedral, tetrahedrally.

+5 letters: faintheartedly, greatheartedly, stadtholderate, theatricalized.

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