A mortality rate is the number of deaths during a particular period of time among a particular type or group of people
Insurers base the premiums for life insurance in part on the mortality rate for a proposed insured's age group.
Life expectancy of persons who attain age 65 appears to have lengthened by threeyears in the past ten, in part because the mortality rate from cardiac disease has fallen by 50 percent in five years.
A mortality rate is the number of deaths during a particular period of time among a particular typeor group of people
Examples of 'mortality rate' in a sentence
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Perfect being a one hundred per cent mortality rate, which seemed a perverse use of the word.
Mark Burnell CHAMELEON (2002)
And even among the fledglings that have been born, the mortality rate is exceptionally high.
Hocke, Martin THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN (2002)