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Also Known As	death rate

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infant mortality rate life expectancy maternal mortality age-specific death rate mortality table death population pyramid case fatality rate memento mori epidemiologic transition overpopulation species abundance population density vital rates fertility birth rate minimum viable population age distribution survivorship curve demographics

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John Graunt

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