Before revision: 400px|Mortality rate of countries, deaths per thousand Mortality rate, or death rate, is a measure of the number of deaths ( in general, or due to a specific cause ) in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time.
After revision: 400px|Mortality rate of countries, deaths per thousand Mortality rate, or death rate, is a measure of the number of deaths in general, or due to a specific cause in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time.