Covid Mortality Rate Per Capita . In Nobles County, Minn., which has one of the highest infection rates anywhere, hundreds of workers tested positive at a meatpacking plant. A disease's death rate is also different from its mortality rate — the latter is the number of deaths out of the number of people in an at-risk population. 'A nightmare all over again': after surviving Katrina, New ... (Danny Oliver) Per capita definition is - per unit of population : by or for each person. In the next slides, we compare the mortality rates and trends for leading causes of death in the US and comparable OECD countries. Note that the Crude Mortality Rate will continue to increase as more infections and deaths. The ranking is different when the total number of coronavirus cases is adjusted for the population. Relative to the size of the population. Map: Texas coronavirus infection rates per capita, county ... ...