The phrase "rate of fatalities" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to the number or percentage of deaths that occur within a given time frame or specific population. Example: The rate of fatalities in car accidents has decreased by 20% over the past decade due to improved safety regulations.
In Los Angeles over the same years, the rate of fatalities was 41.8%.
The rate of fatalities has been remarkably consistent in the last year and a half, ever since the Americans' April 2004 attack on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah pushed the insurgency into its current higher gear.
In testimony last year to a Congressional subcommittee, Jennifer Lincoln, a specialist in occupational safety with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, said the rate of fatalities in Alaska's commercial fishing industry had declined by 51percentt from 1990 to 2006.
The rate of fatalities in 2013 is the lowest in five years — 1.1 per 1,000 starts — and well below the national average collected in the Jockey Club's Equine Injury Database of 1.92 per 1,000 starts, according to the New York State Gaming Commission.
Researchers point to a number of reasons for the high rate of fatalities in Turkey's mines.
Due to high vehicle velocities rural intersections have a disproportionately high rate of fatalities.
"Pickups as a class have the highest rate of fatality and serious injury," he says, "and they have a very high rollover risk".
This leads to narrowing of the artery, causing severe ailments (i.e., heart attack or angina) and a high rate of fatality (NHS 2014).
The rate of fatality accidents fell even more, dropping 41%.
Ebola has a high fatality rate in underdeveloped countries, with The World Health Organization estimating 25percenttoto as high as 90percentt rate of fatality.
Nosocomial bacterial infections and underlying malignant diseases increased the rate of fatality.
