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and finance Allah shmoop What is mortality rate Oh and

no we're not talking about the frequency with which Rick

and Morty episodes are aired We're talking about Mort Alice

E Rate which is about death and dying You know

much more of a downer Well the mortality rate is

a rate that measures the number of deaths either in

general or from something specific per some bounded population per

unit of time but most often mortality rates or the

number of deaths per thousand people per year Keeping the

per thousand people and per year makes it easier to

measure mortality rates against each other without having to do

extra math to make all the units equal When working

with bigger populations it may be scaled up to one

hundred thousand people per year For example the maternal mortality

rates of different nations show how many moms die before

during or after childbirth per hundred thousand live birth from

any cause related to pregnancy Well in the US the

maternal mortality rate more than doubled from twelve pregnancy related

deaths per one hundred thousand live births in nineteen ninety

and two thousand to twenty eight pregnancy related deaths per

hundred thousand live burst in two thousand fifteen Poland Iceland

Greece and Finland all boasted only three deaths per hundred

thousand in two thousand fifteen way better than Angola Chat

in Kenya which had over four hundred deaths per one

hundred thousand Yeah no joke Maybe give Mom a quick

call just to say you know thanks Alright so switching

gears literally What about motor vehicle deaths in the U

S Yeah there are a couple of ways we can

look at this one One is deaths per the number

of miles driven and the other is death for the

population Well as society and technology have advanced the number

of miles Americans have been racking up has grown faster

than a population rate will The general trend for both

of these things has been the direction we'd hoped for

Down down down in nineteen twenty one car related deaths

per one hundred million vehicle miles traveled or V MTS

was just over twenty four By nineteen fifty we got

that number down to just over seven and in the

two thousand two tens it's just over one one death

for one hundred million miles Now let's look at the

death rate in terms of the population rather than miles

driven right The more traditional death rate here in nineteen

twenty one card related deaths per one hundred thousand people

is just over twelve By nineteen fifty That number unfortunately

went up to above twenty one Fortunately it's been in

the ten to eleven range in the two thousand ten's

Big Relief As long as a while you're not one

of those eleven Well we can see that the death

rate in terms of miles has gone down sharply There's

the graph The more miles we've driven in the US

the more sharply car related deaths have dropped in terms

of population The stories little rockier car related deaths were

pretty up and down for a while until well around

the nineteen seventies when it started on a mostly downward

trend So our population starts driving Mohr more miles per

person and more people aren't dying So that's good If

car related deaths in nineteen twenty one were twelve per

hundred thousand people and today there's somewhere around ten or

eleven per hundred thousand Well why haven't there been more

laws enacted to prevent death Well even slower speed limits

maybe perhaps laws outlawing driving all together Then we'd have

zero deaths per one hundred thousand miles Well because society

has decided that one car related death for ten thousand

people are one car related death for one hundred million

miles driven is a price worth paying It's a price

worth it at least to everyone But that one dude

who got nailed by the texting team Well mortality rates

live perpetually high in the minds of insurance companies whose

lawyers air always invoked When a fatality occurs right Angry

parents and spouses must find a way to sue the

irresponsible or maybe just unlucky driver so that well they

feel better about Morty or Rick not being around anymore

Besides insurance companies well who else uses mortality rates in

their jobs The military Yes young people mostly men many

who think Oh it won't be me who dies get

sent directly into gunfire after ten thousand of them run

into bullets eight thousand of them return and the mortality

rate yes that would be calculated as twenty percent their

insurance companies militaries and groups advocating for social change like

your new mommy's dying All use mortality rates the truth

is each of us will one day be a mortality

stat or a Morty The question is on which data

table will you be if you're lucky Maybe one of

the boring ones where you died because you're super old

Or maybe you'LL cryogenically freeze your head in case they 00:04:19.98 --> [endTime] ever figure out howto bring you back Maybe