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What is a mortality rate?

What is a mortality rate? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.
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Small declines in the mortality rate today compound and create very large population increases in projections for the future.
Low prevalence is due to a low incidence of the disease but also a high mortality rate.
The average adult mortality rate for Utopia residents in the 1995-2004 period was just over 1000 deaths per 100000 population.
Though the WNV encephalitis in horses is rare, a considerable mortality rate is reported in the case of encephalitic horses.
Those who gained weight or remained the same had an increased mortality rate of only 2 percent.
Improved health services have decreased the infant mortality rate and the general death rate.

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