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  2. Mortality rate - Wikipedia

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    The crude death rate is defined as "the mortality rate from all causes of death for a population," calculated as the "total number of deaths during a given time interval" divided by the "mid-interval population", per 1,000 or 100,000; for instance, the population of the United States was around 290,810,000 in 2003, and in that year, approximately 2,419,900 deaths occurred in total, giving a ...

  3. List of countries by mortality rate - Wikipedia

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    Crude mortality rate refers to the number of deaths over a given period divided by the person-years lived by the population over that period. It is usually expressed in units of deaths per 1,000 individuals per year. The list is based on CIA World Factbook 2023 estimates, unless indicated otherwise.

  4. Life table - Wikipedia

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    The Pattern Method: Let the pattern of mortality continue until the rate approaches or hits 1.000 and set that as the ultimate age. The Less-Than-One Method: This is a variation on the Forced Method. The ultimate mortality rate is set equal to the expected mortality at a selected ultimate age, rather 1.000 as in the Forced Method.

  5. Vital rates - Wikipedia

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    Vital rates refer to how fast vital statistics change in a population (usually measured per 1000 individuals). There are 2 categories within vital rates: crude rates and refined rates . Crude rates measure vital statistics in a general population (overall change in births and deaths per 1000).

  6. List of countries by rate of natural increase - Wikipedia

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    Rates are the average annual number of births or deaths during a year per 1,000 persons; these are also known as crude birth or death rates. Column four is from the UN Population Division [3] and shows a projection for the average natural increase rate for the time period shown using the medium fertility variant. Blank cells in column four ...

  7. Standardized mortality ratio - Wikipedia

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    Standardized mortality rate tells how many persons, per thousand of the population, will die in a given year and what the causes of death will be. Such statistics have many uses: [citation needed] Life insurance companies periodically update their premiums based on the mortality rate, adjusted for age.

  8. Famine scales - Wikipedia

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    Under-five mortality rate (U5MR), i.e. number of deaths of children under five years of age within a time span 2/10,000/day = "serious situation" 4/10,000/day = "emergency out of control" The use of these cut-offs is contentious. Some argue that a crude mortality rate of one death per ten thousand people per day is already a full-scale ...

  9. List of causes of death by rate - Wikipedia

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    For example, economics may result in certain therapies or screenings being expensive rather than produced at an affordable price or medication costs being too high for an individual to afford them even if they are made available at low cost, poverty can affect nutrition, marketing can increase the consumption of unhealthy products, incentives ...