fatality rate

Questions about fatality rate

What does fatality rate mean?

fatality 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 fatality rate?

Close synonyms include deathrate, death rate, mortality, mortality 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 fatality rate a common word?

fatality 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.