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Measuring Death Rates in Demographic and Epidemiological Transitions

Quick fact

The crude death rate hides dramatic differences in age-specific mortality: a country with a young population can have a low overall death rate even if its death rates are high at every age compared to a country with an older population.

Why this is interesting

We often think of the death rate as a simple number, but how do we really measure how healthy a population is? And why is that number not as straightforward as it seems?