How to Use mortality rate in a Sentence

mortality rate

noun
Definition of mortality ratenext
  • In the past decade, the mortality rate in the state’s jails has been the highest in the country.
    — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 9 May 2024
  • The name refers to the high mortality rate among poultry.
    — Meg Wingerter, The Denver Post, 8 May 2024
  • The pup mortality rate in the crowded cells rose to as high as ninety-six per cent.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
  • But in the last two years, the global mortality rate has been lower: around 27%.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 18 July 2024
  • And Black Americans had the highest mortality rate of all groups in the study.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
  • First, the mortality rate was low, about a third that of most influenza strains.
    — Discover Magazine, 7 Sep. 2024
  • The mortality rate for heatstroke can be as high as 65%.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2024
  • The mortality rate for some cancers, such as leukemia, has fallen from 75% to 10% in these last five decades.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 31 May 2024
  • In another, the mortality rate was 20 percent in the first four years of life.
    — David A. Brenner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Guns are the leading cause of death for U.S. children age 1 to 17, and the firearm mortality rate for children is rising.
    — Brian Castrucci, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2024
  • Also, the mortality rate for Black women under 50 is twice as high as that for white women in the same age group.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Researchers found that the more steps people took, the lower their mortality rate.
    — Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, Rdn, Ld, Health, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The good news is that cancer mortality rates are coming down.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 21 Mar. 2024
  • For one, the study doesn’t touch on mortality rates, or how many young people died from cancer, Visvanathan said.
    — Julia Landwehr, Health, 24 Aug. 2023
  • While the overall mortality rate has more than doubled, experts say that the number might not be telling the whole story.
    — Sophia Carlisle, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2023
  • Kenya has seen an uptick in some of its health metrics in the last two decades, with mortality rates for children under age 5 falling by half.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Black children who live in the richest parts of the United States have higher mortality rates than White children in the poorest parts of the country.
    — Time, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Among genders, men had a higher mortality rate than women for all but two of the 17 leading causes of death.
    — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Black women have the highest mortality rates which are 2.6 times greater than white women's.
    — Maggie Bullock, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2023
  • This leads to an overall increase in stroke burden and a higher stroke mortality rate.
    — Kaitlin Vogel, Health, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Your state had one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the country according to the CDC, up until about 2021.
    — CBS News, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Among a study of 11 wealthy nations, the United States has the highest maternal mortality rate.
    — Daliah Singer, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
  • In other words, these are indirect ways that a storm can lead to higher mortality rates.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The study says the last 30 years shows an eightfold increase in infections with an 18 percent mortality rate.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Black women have a maternal mortality rate about three times the rate for white women.
    — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 3 Dec. 2023
  • Monitoring the virus While the short-term risk is low, Roberts said that two aspects of the virus concern him in the long-term: its mortality rate and its ability to jump from species to species.
    — Katy Golvala, Hartford Courant, 19 June 2024
  • In 2006, the clinics first addressed the high mortality rates of truckers during the AIDS epidemic.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Mar. 2024
  • There is quite a bit of debate as to whether the US population’s average mortality rate is on the rise or waning.
    — Chris Carosa, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
  • And while the virus is less lethal in cows than birds, dead cows and calves have piled up along roadsides in Tulare County, with farmers and veterinarians reporting mortality rates far higher than expected.
    — Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2024
  • The rural pockets of endemic disease that have been neglected for decades have higher mortality rates and could always ignite another epidemic.
    — Byjon Cohen, science.org, 9 Dec. 2024

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