mortality rate
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A mortality rate measures how many people die from a specific cause within a certain population over a set period of time, adjusted to account for the size of that population. It matters because it helps us understand how deadly a disease, condition, or cause is, and allows us to compare health risks fairly across different groups and places.
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Mortality rate of countries, deaths per thousand
Mortality rate, or death rate, is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time. Mortality rate is typically expressed in units of deaths per 1,000 individuals per year; thus, a mortality rate of 9.5 (out of 1,000) in a population of 1,000 would mean 9.5 deaths per year in that entire population, or 0.95% out of the total. It is distinct from "morbidity", which is either the prevalence or incidence of a disease, and also from the incidence rate (the number of newly appearing cases of the disease per unit of time).