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
• Over the past two weeks, the death rate has increased 25%.
  — oregonlive, 24 Jan. 2021
• Oil rigs work are among jobs with some of the highest death rates.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
• The good thing is that the death rate has not increased nearly as much.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
• The death rate per capita there is greater than any U.S. state.
  — Spencer McFadden Hoge and Cynthia McFadden, Town & Country, 25 Oct. 2020
• 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
• Over the course of the study — one of the largest ever of its kind — the death rate from the syndrome held steady, at 6.5 percent.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2025
• 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 death rate here is more than 2.5 times the rates of France and Canada and 3.5 times that of the United Kingdom.
  — Antonio Reynoso, New York Daily News, 6 Apr. 2025
• 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
• Over all, the death rate among all patients with Covid-19 was 0.6 percent.
  — Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2020
• 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
• The hope is that being tested will lead to a lower death rate.
  — David Carr, STAT, 12 Feb. 2021
• For Whites, that means an excess death rate of 11.9% over a normal year.
  — Lenny Bernstein, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Oct. 2020
• 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
• Where states were home to more women or more Black people, the decline in death rate was larger.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 3 July 2025
• However, overall heart disease death rates over the past five decades dropped by 66% in American adults age 25 and older, according to a new study.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 25 June 2025