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death rate

the number of people in a POPULATION who die per thousand per year. In 2004, for example, the UK death rate was 10 people per 1,000 of the population. The difference between this rate and the BIRTH RATE is used to calculate the rate of growth of the population of a country over time. The death rate tends to decline as a country attains higher levels of economic development. See DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION.

Collins Dictionary of Economics, 4th ed. © C. Pass, B. Lowes, L. Davies 2005

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A recent report released by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on July 23, 2019, analyzed trends on death rates in young and middle aged people between 2012 to 2017 that led them to also know the differences in life expectancy among white, black and Hispanic populations.

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Curtin and Elizabeth Arias, Ph.D., from the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland, describe trends in age-adjusted death rates from 2000 through 2017 for Hispanic, non-Hispanic white, and non-Hispanic black adults aged 25 years and older.

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Between 1999 and 2007, the drug overdose death rate for the age group more than doubled, but then fell by 26 percent between 2007-2014.

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A study of staffing levels in National Health Service hospitals found that in trusts where registered nurses had six or fewer patients to care for, the death rate for patients with medical conditions was 20% lower than in those where they had more than 10.