death rate vs fatality rate

death rate and fatality rate both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
death rate	Yes	No	No	No
fatality rate	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, death rate and fatality rate are synonyms defined as:

death rate and fatality rate: the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year

Other synonyms of death rate include deathrate, mortality, mortality rate.

death rate (noun)	fatality rate (noun)
the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year	the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year