How to Use death rate in a Sentence

death rate

noun

• Lung cancer death rates are up.
• The death rate from accidents is rising.
• There was a decline in the country's death rate after its health care improved.
• The city’s death rate from Covid was at one point the highest in the world.
  — TIME, 17 Jan. 2024
• The virus still has a death rate of 1.6% in the U.S. — roughly 16 times greater than the flu.
  — Paul Newberry, ajc, 17 Dec. 2021
• The good thing is that the death rate has not increased nearly as much.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
• For Black Chicagoans, the death rate was approaching triple the rate of white Chicagoans.
  — Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 20 Mar. 2022
• Biden’s goal is to have the cancer death rate be cut by at least half by 2047.
  — The National Desk, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2024
• The death rate for Blacks and Hispanics has been twice that for whites.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2022
• When the surge subsided, the Black death rate once again dropped below the White rate.
  — Akilah Johnson and Dan Keating, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2022
• The country’s death rate from Covid seems to have plateaued — at least somewhat.
  — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2023
• Their deaths rates per million are a tiny fraction of the US death rate.
  — Jeffrey Sachs, CNN, 22 Sep. 2021
• Hungary has the highest per capita death rate in the world.
  — Vanessa Gera, chicagotribune.com, 24 Mar. 2021
• The death rate is more than twice that of Latino, Asian and white babies, the report showed.
  — Eleanore Catolico, Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2024
• Their model found the daily death rate could have climbed as high as 4,500.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2021
• In addition, the state’s death rate is rising and its birthrate is at a record low.
  — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2021
• And statewide, the asthma death rate for Black patients in 2020 was five times that of white patients.
  — Talis Shelbourne, jsonline.com, 26 Aug. 2022
• The death rates on the job by race are in stark contrast with the racial breakdown of the American workforce.
  — Char Adams, NBC News, 25 Apr. 2024
• As of August, Ukraine's death rate was triple that of the birth rate, as the war with Russia has taken its toll.
  — Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 15 Dec. 2024
• Deaths spiraled and Hong Kong soon had the highest death rate in the world, surpassing the US’s worst day.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2022
• But in recent years, the CCF has made some progress in reducing the cheetah death rate.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2024
• The research ranked Wisconsin 23rd in its strength of gun laws, while its gun death rate ranked 15th .
  — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2023
• Mama Glow aims to raise awareness about the high death rate of Black mothers and find ways to bring it down.
  — Pamela Kirkland, CNN, 25 June 2023
• As of today, the jails are a couple deaths away from having the highest death rate in at least 15 years.
  — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2023
• The death rate fell to 4% the following month, still far higher than the five-year average.
  — Dasha Afanasieva, Fortune Europe, 21 Jan. 2024
• The same study showed a 25 percent lower death rate from any cause among chileheads.
  — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 3 May 2021
• The per capita death rate in the south is nearly fourfold higher.
  — Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2021
• Despite a death rate that reached 50% in some years, the English decided to stay.
  — oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2021
• Over the past year, efforts by government and civil society groups have brought the death rate to its lowest level on record — at least, in the sense of deaths per total miles driven.
  — Saul Elbein, The Hill, 3 Mar. 2025
• State of play: Before the 2000s, high birth rates coupled with lower death rates were Virginia's main population driver.
  — Sabrina Moreno, Axios, 19 Mar. 2025