casualty rate
Conflict death proportion
Casualty rate is the proportion of personnel killed, wounded, captured, or missing relative to the total force engaged.
Military strategists use it to assess battle intensity and combat effectiveness: The regiment suffered a thirty percent casualty rate in the first week.
The term extends to any situation tracking losses against a whole: The casualty rate among startups in their first year exceeds fifty percent.
- fatalityDeath from accident
- mortalityState of eventual death
- death tollTotal fatalities counted
- killed in actionDied during combat operations
- missing in actionCombat status, fate unknown
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