Synonyms for death rate
death rate

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1. deathrate, death rate, mortality, mortality rate, fatality ratenoun

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

   Synonyms:
   mortality, deathrate, mortality rate, fatality rate

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1. death rate

   Synonyms:
   mortality

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1. Farhad Islami:

   I think the main reason for the increase in liver cancer incidence and death rate in the US is the increase in the prevalence of excess body weight and hepatitis C virus infection in baby boomers.

2. Jonathan Reiner:

   It takes about a week after someone becomes infected until they get sick enough to be hospitalized, and then often about a week after that until you start seeing deaths, we've sort of plateaued with the death rate sort of fluctuating between 600 and 800 deaths per day. ... Obviously, everyone is concerned about the death rate starting to take off again.

3. Rebecca Siegel:

   The continued decline in the cancer death rate over the past 25 years is really good news and was a little bit of a surprise, only because the other leading causes of death in the US are starting to flatten. So we've been wondering if that's going to happen for cancer as well, but so far it hasn't.

4. Gordon Merry:

   We were able to cut our death rate from 35 people last year to 25 this year, at this time, we attribute that to a lot that we are doing, such as giving Narcan to the police and fire departments and the Department of Health started a needle exchange program that brings people into clinics where they can also receive additional help.

5. Jeremy Faust:

   We'll never know that for sure, because thankfully now we have the ability to save more lives, but even with all our technology and medical progress, the death rate being 70 % as bad as it was at the worst point in 1918, I think people don't realize how serious this is.