How to Use mortality rate in a Sentence

mortality rate

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The trend threatens to worsen the U.S. maternal mortality rate that continues to rise despite some of the highest health-care spending in the world.
  — Cailley Lapara, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
• San Diego County jails have had one of the highest mortality rates in California for years.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2024
• Deaths among new mothers in Texas spiked at least 40% over the last two decades across all racial and ethnic groups, according to a new study on U.S. maternal mortality rates.
  — Marin Wolf, Dallas News, 26 July 2023
• If untreated, the mortality rate of TB is higher than 50%.
  — Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 30 Aug. 2024
• Still far below the Covid mortality rates for any other country.
  — George Calhoun, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• The study tracked mortality rates in 19 industrialized countries and broke them down not by when people died, but when they were born.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024