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death rate
noun
death rate
[
countable
]
1
S
the number of deaths for every 100 or every 1000 people in a particular year and in a particular place
[↪
birth rate
]
2
the number of deaths each year from a particular disease or in a particular group
:
childhood death rates
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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