infant deathrate

1. 1.

   the death rate during the first year of life

   Synonymsinfant mortalityinfant mortality rate

   Broaderdeathrate

Questions about infant deathrate

What does infant deathrate mean?

infant deathrate means "the death rate during the first year of life".

What is another word for infant deathrate?

Close synonyms include infant mortality, infant 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 infant deathrate a common word?

infant deathrate 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.