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Suppose that in 2008 625900 citizens died of a certain disease assuming the population of the country is 277 million what was the mortality rate in units of deaths per 100,000 people
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Mortality rate is a measure of the number of deaths in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time.
Let 'x' represent the mortality rate in units of deaths per 100,000 people.
We have the following proportion:
625,900 : 277,000,000 = x : 100,000
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x = 256 deaths per 100,000 people
The mortality rate is 256 deaths per 100,000 people.