Age-standardized mortality rate

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The age-standardized mortality rate is a weighted average of the age-specific mortality rates per 100,000 persons, where the weights are the proportions of persons in the corresponding age groups of the WHO standard population.

Age-standardized mortality rates are used to compare the mortality rates of places without being skewed by the difference in age distributions from place to place.

Mortality rate that takes into account the age structure of the population to which it refers. Used to compare mortality in populations with very different age structures.

A mortality rate statistically modified to eliminate the effect of different age distributions in the different populations.

Also called age-adjusted mortality rate.

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