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mortality rate
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Noun mortality rate has 1 sense
- mortality rate(n = noun.time) death rate, deathrate, fatality rate, mortality - the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year; Array has particulars: infant deathrate, infant mortality, infant mortality rate, neonatal mortality, neonatal mortality rate
is a kind of rate
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