16011 IUPAC Gold Book - proportional mortality rate 10.1351/goldbook.16011 16011 current synonym: proportional mortality ratio 1 Proportion of observed deaths from a specified condition in a defined population divided by the proportion of deaths expected from this condition in a standard population, expressed either on an age-specific basis or after age adjustment. PAC, 2007, 79, 1153. 'Glossary of terms used in toxicology, 2nd edition (IUPAC Recommendations 2007)' on page 1290 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac200779071153) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/16011/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/16011/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/16011/plain Citation: 'proportional mortality 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.16011 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. 2026-06-20T01:50:02+00:00