Talk:Mortality rate

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My brother is looking at a job in Iraq, so I thought I would try and figure out just how dangerous Iraq is, statistically speaking. I found this web page, which confused me:

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2066rank.html

Looking at this page, I found these items:

  1. 1 is Swaziland, with a death rate of 30.35. That translates to a life expectancy of roughly 33 years (1000/30.35). I can understand that. There is a very high likelihood of dying there.
  1. 222 is United Arab Emirates with a rate of 2.16, which translates to a life expectancy of 463 years, which is obviously wrong.

From this simple calculation, it is unlikely that any country should have a death rate below 12 or 13, but most of the countries on this list fall into this category.

So either old people from all over the world are emigrating to Swaziland to die, or every woman of childbearing age is giving birth to quadruplets every year, or I am missing something. Can anyone explain?

71.117.209.73 (talk) 00:50, 28 November 2007 (UTC) Charles Pergiel

[edit] This makes no sense

If a mortality rate is units of death per 1000 people, how is the example mortality rate more than 1000? It gives an example of a --74.38.198.69 (talk) 16:14, 27 April 2008 (UTC)mortality rate that is 10000.5 and therefore 10 times more people die than are in the population. You can not have a mortality rate>1000, it makes no sense.

That was vandalism. -R. S. Shaw 06:38, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

== what about [[Media:

more than]] 200 000 deaths in USA from iatrogenesis? ==

See Iatrogenesis Jkpjkp 15:27, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] First sentence could be better

Instead of:

Mortality rate (the word mortality comes from mortal, which originates from Latin mors, death) is the number of deaths (from

[edit] a disease or in general) per 1000 people and

typically reported on an annual basis.


how about:

Mortality rate (from mortal, from Latin mors: death) is a measure of the number of deaths in a population, per unit time, scaled to the size of the population. Mortality is typically expressed in units of deaths per year per 1000 members of the population; thus a mortality rate of 5.5 in a population of 100,000 would mean that 550 individuals die per year in that population.

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According to this page, the mortality rate is a measure of the number of monkeys there are dancing round a plum tree...Does that make any sense?

That was vandalism. -R. S. Shaw 06:38, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dead

I would like to make a question. How many humans die in a day?Can someone answer this? It would be crucial for this article.

You can take the total number given in the introduction of List of causes of death by rate and divide it by 365. It's not important for this article, which is about rates in general. -R. S. Shaw 06:33, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ASMR - Age Standardized Mortality Rates

I thought that ASMR was for Age Standardized Mortality Rates (not age specific) which would allow comparison of death rates in different geographic regions, overtime, and/or between sexes.

Also, whether a rate is calculated per 1,000 people, per 10,000, or per 100,000 people is up to whoever runs the data - so there is probably a typo on the first page which is why the death rate is higher than the per x population stated.

209.53.175.250 20:39, 20 April 2007 (UTC)me

"Prevalence rate" is a misnomer, there is no time involved in the prevalence of disease in a population —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.3.148.180 (talk) 07:07, 13 April 2008 (UTC)