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The hazard rate refers to the rate of death for an item of a given age ... units at the beginning of the interval. If we were to calculate a person's chances of dying at a certain age, we would ...

used a different method than the CDC’s to calculate the maternal mortality rate, concluding that it was 10.4 deaths per 100,000 births from 2018 to 2021, rather than the higher figures the ...

In Central Europe, for example, the mortality rate for children fell from roughly 50 percent in 1750 to 0.3 percent in 2020. You will not find more unambiguous evidence of human progress.

Whereas most of the developed world saw its mortality rates improve in the second year of the coronavirus pandemic, more Americans died of COVID after the introduction of the vaccines than before.

The authors studied pre-pandemic data to calculate the number of deaths ... population saw a 20 percent increase from usual mortality rates, while seniors — who have a higher mortality rate ...

The infant mortality rate is calculated by dividing the number of infants who die within one year of birth by the number of infants who are born. The infant mortality rate is usually expressed as ...