14568 IUPAC Gold Book - death rate 10.1351/goldbook.14568 14568 current 1 Number of deaths \(D\) in a closed population of size \(N\) during a specified time interval, \(\Delta t\). The rate is calculated from the formula \[D = -\Delta N/\Delta t\] where \(\Delta N\) is the change in number of deaths over a specified time period. per capita death rate https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/14905 population https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/14932 PAC, 2009, 81, 829. 'Glossary of terms used in ecotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2009)' on page 864 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-08-07-09) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14568/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14568/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/14568/plain Citation: 'death rate' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.14568 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-04-19T06:41:56+00:00