death rate
noun
Note: A crude death rate does not distinguish between specific causes of death or groups of individuals and measures the incidence of all deaths in a population during a given time period. More specific death rates are based on narrower categories of individuals or causes of death.
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Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
Since permit-to-purchase was removed in 2007, Missouri’s gun death rate increased 58% by 2019, according to a Star analysis of state firearms death figures.
—Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 8 May 2024
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“Death rate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20rate. Accessed 12 May. 2024.
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death rate
nounNote: A crude death rate does not distinguish between specific causes of death or groups of individuals and measures the incidence of all deaths in a population during a given time period. More specific death rates are based on narrower categories of individuals or causes of death.
Harvard Health LetterBrendan Borrell, Scientific American
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