Question

What is mortality rate?

• A. Unit of deaths per thousand individuals per year
• B. Unit of deaths per hundred individuals per year
• C. Unit of deaths per ten thousand individuals per year
• D. Unit of deaths per ten individuals per year

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

Unit of deaths per thousand individuals per year

Mortality rate is the total number of deaths from a particular cause in 1 year divided by the number of people alive within the population at mid year. It is usually expressed in units of deaths per 1,000 per year or it could be described as percent dead in a specific period of time.