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social science subjects > health and social care > health sciences > death rate
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death rate  

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  • The death rate is a statistic that allows us to analyze either the total number of deaths or the number of deaths due to a specific cause in a defined population over a particular period of time. Death rates are usually expressed in terms of 1,000 or 100,000 population. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Health; Death Rate]

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