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English
Alternative forms
Noun
death rate (plural death rates)
- The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.
- Synonyms: mortality, mortality rate
- Antonym: birth rate
Translations
the number of deaths
- Catalan: taxa de mortalitat f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 死亡率 (zh) (sǐwánglǜ)
- Czech: úmrtnost (cs) f
- Danish: dødelighed (da) c, dødsrate c, dødelighedsprocent c
- Finnish: kuolevuus (fi)
- French: taux de mortalité (fr) m
- Georgian: სიკვდილიანობა (siḳvdilianoba), სიკვდილიანობის დონე (siḳvdilianobis done), სიკვდილიანობის კოეფიციენტი (siḳvdilianobis ḳoepicienṭi), სიკვდილიანობის მაჩვენებელი (siḳvdilianobis mačvenebeli)
- German: Sterberate (de) f
- Japanese: 死亡率 (ja) (しぼうりつ, shibōritsu)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: dødsrate (no) m, dødelighet (no) m or f, mortalitet m
- Nynorsk: dødsrate m, dødelegheit f, døyelegheit f, mortalitet m
- Portuguese: (taxa de) mortalidade f
- Russian: сме́ртность (ru) f (smértnostʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: smrtnost (sh) f
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- Zulu:amanombolo okufa kwabantu
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