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Definition of Deathrate
1. Noun. The ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year.
Specialized synonyms: Infant Deathrate, Infant Mortality, Infant Mortality Rate, Neonatal Mortality, Neonatal Mortality Rate
Generic synonyms: Rate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deathrate
Literary usage of Deathrate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Births and Deaths. by Charles Edward Pell (1921)
"the degree of fertility to suit the deathrate, then the decline " cannot ...
There is a limit to the fall in the deathrate. Even when the deathrate is ..."
2. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia by Royal Society of South Australia (1878)
"In that colony the deathrate of infante is much lower than it is in South Australia,
although the temperature of Queensland is some five or six degrees ..."
3. American Medicine (1906)
"known that the deathrate in every lower race is enormous, ... The deathrate in
zoological gardens is very great even with all the care to imitate the ..."
4. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1905)
"The deathrate from pneumonia has risen steadily, from 1.95 per 1000 in 1870 to
2.89 per 1000 in 1903, and the deaths which in 1870 constituted only about 7 ..."
5. Journal of the Institute of Actuaries and Assurance Magazine by Institute of Actuaries (Great Britain) (1872)
"The President had remarked that the great infantile deathrate in London would
weed out a great many of the weakest lives and diminish the deathrate at ..."
6. World-power and Evolution by Ellsworth Huntington (1919)
"In both cases notice how regularly the deathrate declines as the temperature becomes
... Neither do epidemics cause any such variations in the deathrate. ..."
7. The Kansas City Review (1885)
"Several of the leading physicians have stated that the deathrate from pneumonia
this year has been much larger than that of the cholera in the year 1854. ..."
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