total mortality rate vs. crude mortality rate

[Kemosabe]

what is the difference between the total mortality rate vs. crude? crude is over/1000 people. I get that the total fertility rate is the average number of children a woman has per life time, but what would the total mortality rate be. This seems like a silly question, but there's got to be a good way to explain it. Is it the average death rate of people across the globe?

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[shefv]

total mortality rate = number of deaths/year
crude mortality rate = number of deaths/1000 people/year

This is how I think about it. Someone correct me if I am wrong.

 

[amy_k]

Shefv is right. To use an analogy - crude death rate is like when they give a fact "one in every 100 people will develop x disease". So if the crude death rate is 10, then 10 people in every 1000 people will die in a year.