death rate

Questions about death rate

What does death rate mean?

death rate means "the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year".

What is another word for death rate?

Close synonyms include deathrate, mortality, mortality rate, fatality rate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is death rate a common word?

death rate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.