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 good thing is that the death rate has not increased nearly as much.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Most were killed in the West Bank during Israeli military raids — one of the highest death rates in the last decade and a half.
  — Patrick Kingsley, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
• Their neighbors in the other state were among the least healthy, with annual death rates that were 40% to 50% higher.
  — Time, 18 Aug. 2023
• At the same time, the death rate is expected to rise as the baby boomer generation ages.
  — Corina Knoll, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2023
• Instead, the opioid death rate here is roughly one-twentieth the rate in the United States.
  — Lev Facher, STAT, 26 Mar. 2024
• At the time, Phoenix had 14 cyclist deaths, giving it the highest cyclist death rate of any major city in the United States.
  — Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2022
• The death rate of children was four times higher in one-room tenements than in four-room houses.
  — David Brown, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2022
• The increased death rate in white people was due to a lack of vaccination, not an abundance.
  — Gabrielle Settles, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
• The Covid-19 death rate is for the same fiscal period in which hospitals claimed relief funds.
  — Melanie Evans, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2022
• The death rate for Black men declined slightly in 2021, but was still the second highest among the demographic groups.
  — Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 22 Dec. 2022
• So even though more people are hospitalized, the death rate is not climbing as much.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
• For children under 5 years old, death rates were doubled.
  — Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2023
• For decades, the overall death rate among Americans aged 19 and younger had been steadily decreasing.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2023
• The death rate for prostate cancer among Black men was two to three times higher than those in every other racial group, according to the new report.
  — Nicole Wetsman, ABC News, 12 Jan. 2023
• Under Arden’s leadership, New Zealand has had a remarkably low Covid-19 death rate compared to the rest of the world.
  — Kara Alaimo, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
• Some countries that already have low birth and death rates are facing these issues today.
  — Alice Sun, Scientific American, 30 Jan. 2024
• At the same time, maternal death rates have worsened in higher income countries like the United States.
  — Jennifer Fields, Fortune Well, 12 Sep. 2023
• New Mexico, with its high death rate, has gotten very little.
  — USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2024
• The death rate has also generally declined in those three counties over the past 20 years, Jaffee added.
  — Erik Ofgang, Hartford Courant, 29 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024