Deaths, Australia

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Statistics about deaths and mortality rates for Australia, states and territories, and sub-state regions

Reference period

2018

Released

25/09/2019

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Key statistics

There were 158,493 registered deaths, a decrease of 1.5% since 2017.
The standardised death rate decreased to 5.1 deaths, from 5.3 in 2017.
Infant deaths decreased by 31 deaths to 988.
There were 3,218 deaths where the deceased was Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, or both.

Summary statistics
		2008	2017	2018
All deaths	no.	143,946	160,909	158,493
Infant deaths	no.	1,226	1,019	988
Standardised death rate	rate	6.1	5.3	5.1
Crude death rate	rate	6.8	6.5	6.3
Infant mortality rate	rate	4.1	3.3	3.1

The standardised death rate uses the age distribution of total persons in the Australian population at 30 June 2001 as the standard population. Expressed as deaths per 1,000 standard population.

The crude death rate is the number of deaths registered during the calendar year per 1,000 estimated resident population at 30 June.

The infant mortality rate is the number of deaths of children under one year of age in a specified period per 1,000 live births in the same period.

Births registered by Indigenous status of the birth(a)

State or territory of usual residence	Sex	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander	Non-Indigenous	Not stated	Total
NSW
	Males	3,895	50,547	774	55,216
	Females	3,670	47,772	685	52,127
	Persons	7,565	98,319	1,459	107,343
Vic.
	Males	936	39,193	225	40,354
	Females	797	37,125	212	38,134
	Persons	1,733	76,318	437	78,488
Qld
	Males	3,248	28,599	38	31,885
	Females	3,114	26,901	31	30,046
	Persons	6,362	55,500	69	61,931
SA
	Males	578	9,052	198	9,828
	Females	537	8,566	182	9,285
	Persons	1,115	17,618	380	19,113
WA
	Males	1,432	15,341	340	17,113
	Females	1,293	14,516	335	16,144
	Persons	2,725	29,857	675	33,257
Tas.
	Males	301	2,547	7	2,855
	Females	275	2,407	10	2,692
	Persons	576	4,954	17	5,547
NT
	Males	850	1,235	0	2,085
	Females	793	1,172	0	1,965
	Persons	1,643	2,407	0	4,050
ACT
	Males	106	2,576	50	2,732
	Females	98	2,492	52	2,642
	Persons	204	5,068	102	5,374
Aust.(b)
	Males	11,349	149,106	1,633	162,088
	Females	10,579	140,973	1,507	153,059
	Persons	21,928	290,079	3,140	315,147

Limited births data has been included to allow for the calculation of infant mortality rates. Detailed births and fertility data will be released in Births.
Includes Other Territories.

National

Deaths registered

There were 158,493 deaths registered, 2,416 less than the number registered in 2017 (160,909).
There were more male deaths (82,320) than female deaths (76,173), resulting in a sex ratio of 108.1 male deaths for every 100 female deaths.
Since 2008, the number of deaths registered has increased by around 1.1% per year on average for males and 0.8% per year for females, with year-to-year fluctuations.

Deaths registered, 1912 to 2018
	Males	Females
1912	30,285	21,892
1913	29,859	21,930
1914	29,835	21,885
1915	30,654	22,128
1916	31,018	23,179
1917	27,609	20,420
1918	28,585	21,664
1919	37,632	28,298
1920	32,053	24,236
1921	30,652	23,424
1922	29,245	22,066
1923	31,622	24,614
1924	31,103	23,877
1925	31,134	23,434
1926	32,387	24,565
1927	32,858	25,424
1928	33,145	26,233
1929	34,718	26,139
1930	31,148	24,183
1931	31,796	24,764
1932	31,860	24,897
1933	33,250	25,867
1934	34,571	27,658
1935	35,691	27,908
1936	35,651	28,281
1937	36,246	28,250
1938	37,046	29,405
1939	38,837	30,310
1940	38,608	29,776
1941	39,409	31,767
1942	41,587	33,604
1943	40,778	33,708
1944	37,820	31,776
1945	38,211	32,020
1946	41,283	33,378
1947	40,769	32,699
1948	42,655	34,184
1949	42,195	33,065
1950	43,720	34,467
1951	45,953	35,835
1952	45,851	35,746
1953	44,822	35,366
1954	45,787	36,018
1955	46,188	35,848
1956	48,192	37,896
1957	47,659	37,294
1958	47,050	36,673
1959	50,293	38,919
1960	49,629	38,835
1961	50,248	38,713
1962	52,378	40,785
1963	53,212	41,682
1964	56,246	44,348
1965	55,770	43,945
1966	57,795	46,134
1967	57,508	45,195
1968	61,061	48,486
1969	59,686	46,810
1970	62,828	50,220
1971	61,074	49,576
1972	61,116	48,644
1973	61,588	49,234
1974	64,299	51,534
1975	60,738	48,283
1976	62,527	50,135
1977	60,320	48,470
1978	60,281	48,144
1979	59,257	47,311
1980	60,518	48,177
1981	60,696	48,307
1982	63,295	51,476
1983	60,450	49,634
1984	59,987	49,927
1985	64,156	54,652
1986	62,210	52,771
1987	63,611	53,710
1988	65,082	54,784
1989	66,926	57,306
1990	64,660	55,402
1991	64,067	55,079
1992	66,115	57,545
1993	65,089	56,510
1994	67,464	59,228
1995	66,251	58,882
1996	68,206	60,513
1997	67,752	61,598
1998	67,073	60,129
1999	67,227	60,875
2000	66,817	61,474
2001	66,835	61,709
2002	68,885	64,822
2003	68,330	63,962
2004	68,395	64,113
2005	67,241	63,473
2006	68,556	65,183
2007	70,569	67,285
2008	73,548	70,398
2009	72,320	68,440
2010	73,484	69,989
2011	75,330	71,602
2012	74,794	72,304
2013	75,782	71,896
2014	78,341	75,239
2015	81,330	77,722
2016	81,867	76,637
2017	82,858	78,051
2018	82,320	76,173

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Age and sex distribution

The distribution of deaths by age and sex reflects males dying at a younger age than females until age 84 years.
At age 85-89 years and onwards, females record more deaths than males.

Age and sex distribution
	Males	Females
0	571	417
1-4	89	69
5-9	51	51
10-14	80	56
15-19	304	153
20-24	510	167
25-29	580	217
30-34	724	319
35-39	966	493
40-44	1,125	697
45-49	1,763	1,101
50-54	2,391	1,588
55-59	3,689	2,332
60-64	4,955	3,120
65-69	6,612	4,162
70-74	9,009	5,828
75-79	10,262	7,492
80-84	12,330	10,358
85-89	13,457	14,403
90-94	9,532	14,733
95-99	2,947	6,992
100+	372	1,425

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Median age at death

The median age at death:

was 78.9 years for males and 84.8 years for females
for males has not changed since 2015
for females has decreased slightly from 85.0 years to 84.8 years, back to the same as it was in 2014
has increased by 1.0 years for males and 0.9 years for females over the past ten years

Standardised death rate

The standardised death rate:

decreased to 5.1 deaths per 1,000 standard population, from 5.3 in 2017
declined from 6.1 in 2008 to 5.1 in 2018, with both males and females showing a similar decline

Standardised death rates, 1976 to 2018
	Males	Females
1976	15.1	9.1
1977	14.1	8.6
1978	13.9	8.3
1979	13.4	8.0
1980	13.4	7.9
1981	13.2	7.7
1982	13.4	8.0
1983	12.5	7.5
1984	12.1	7.3
1985	12.6	7.7
1986	11.7	7.2
1987	11.7	7.1
1988	11.6	7.1
1989	11.7	7.2
1990	10.9	6.8
1991	10.6	6.6
1992	10.6	6.7
1993	10.2	6.4
1994	10.4	6.5
1995	9.9	6.3
1996	9.9	6.2
1997	9.5	6.1
1998	9.2	5.8
1999	8.9	5.7
2000	8.6	5.6
2001	8.3	5.4
2002	8.3	5.5
2003	8.1	5.3
2004	7.9	5.2
2005	7.5	5.0
2006	7.4	5.0
2007	7.3	5.0
2008	7.4	5.1
2009	7.0	4.8
2010	6.9	4.7
2011	6.9	4.7
2012	6.6	4.6
2013	6.5	4.5
2014	6.5	4.6
2015	6.5	4.6
2016	6.4	4.5
2017	6.2	4.5
2018	6.0	4.3

Standardised death rates, 1976 to 2018

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Crude death rate

The crude death rate:

decreased to 6.3 deaths per 1,000 population, from 6.5 in 2017
has been relatively stable with the highest rate at 6.8 deaths per 1,000 population in 2008 and the lowest at 6.3 in 2018

Age-specific death rate

The age-specific death rates were:

higher for males than for females for nearly all age groups, with few exceptions
lowest in age groups 5-9 and 10-14 years for both males (0.1) and females (0.1)
highest in age group 100+ years for both males (322.6) and females (425.8)

States and territories

Deaths registered

Over three quarters (77.4%) of deaths registered were to usual residents of New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland combined.

Deaths registered by state and territory of usual residence
State or territory	2008 (no.)	2017 (no.)	2018 (no.)	2018 (%)
New South Wales	48,782	52,778	53,633	33.8
Victoria	35,497	39,791	38,231	24.1
Queensland	27,335	31,555	30,860	19.5
South Australia	12,616	14,052	13,571	8.6
Western Australia	12,752	14,494	14,652	9.2
Tasmania	4,219	4,780	4,287	2.7
Northern Territory	1,041	1,106	1,110	0.7
Australian Capital Territory	1,697	2,320	2,127	1.3
Australia(a)	143,946	160,909	158,493	100

Includes Other Territories.

Median age at death

Median age at death was:

highest in Victoria and South Australia for males (80.1 years) and in Victoria for females (85.4 years)
lowest in the Northern Territory (64.7 years for males and 67.9 years for females)

Standardised death rate

In 2018, the standardised death rate was:

highest in the Northern Territory (7.2 deaths per 1,000 standard population), followed by Tasmania (5.6)
lowest in Victoria (4.7)

Over the past ten years, standardised death rates:

declined in all states and territories
declined the most in the Northern Territory (2.3 deaths per 1,000 standard population), followed by Tasmania (1.3)

Standardised death rates by state and territory
	2008	2018
NSW	6.1	5.2
Vic.	5.9	4.7
Qld.	6.4	5.2
SA	6.1	5.3
WA	6.0	5.0
Tas.	6.9	5.6
NT	9.5	7.2
ACT	5.8	5.0
Aust.	6.1	5.1

Standardised death rates by state and territory

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Infants

Deaths registered

There were 988 infant deaths (deaths of children aged less than one year) registered (571 boys and 417 girls).
This was a 3.0% decrease compared with the number registered in 2017 (1,019).
Over the past ten years, the number of infant deaths has decreased overall (with some fluctuations) from 1,226 in 2008.

Infant mortality rate

Australia has one of the lowest infant mortality rates in the world.

The infant mortality rate was:

3.1 infant deaths per 1,000 live births, compared with 3.3 in 2017
4.1 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2008

Infant mortality rates, 1912 to 2018
	Infant mortality rate
1912	71.7
1913	72.2
1914	71.5
1915	67.5
1916	70.3
1917	55.9
1918	58.6
1919	69.2
1920	69.1
1921	65.7
1922	52.7
1923	60.5
1924	57.1
1925	53.4
1926	54.0
1927	54.5
1928	53.0
1929	51.1
1930	47.2
1931	42.1
1932	41.3
1933	39.5
1934	43.6
1935	39.8
1936	41.2
1937	38.1
1938	38.3
1939	38.2
1940	38.4
1941	39.7
1942	39.5
1943	36.3
1944	31.3
1945	29.4
1946	29.0
1947	28.5
1948	27.8
1949	25.3
1950	24.5
1951	25.2
1952	23.8
1953	23.3
1954	22.5
1955	22.0
1956	21.7
1957	21.4
1958	20.5
1959	21.5
1960	20.2
1961	19.5
1962	20.4
1963	19.5
1964	19.1
1965	18.5
1966	18.7
1967	18.3
1968	17.8
1969	17.9
1970	17.9
1971	17.3
1972	16.7
1973	16.5
1974	16.1
1975	14.3
1976	13.8
1977	12.5
1978	12.2
1979	11.4
1980	10.7
1981	10.0
1982	10.3
1983	9.6
1984	9.2
1985	9.9
1986	8.8
1987	8.7
1988	8.7
1989	8.0
1990	8.2
1991	7.1
1992	7.0
1993	6.1
1994	5.9
1995	5.7
1996	5.8
1997	5.3
1998	5.0
1999	5.7
2000	5.2
2001	5.3
2002	5.0
2003	4.8
2004	4.7
2005	4.9
2006	4.7
2007	4.1
2008	4.1
2009	4.2
2010	4.1
2011	3.8
2012	3.3
2013	3.6
2014	3.4
2015	3.2
2016	3.1
2017	3.3
2018	3.1

Infant mortality rates, 1912 to 2018

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

Summary statistics(a)
		2008	2017	2018
All deaths	no.	2,215	2,988	3,218
Infant deaths	no.	101	113	99
Standardised death rate	rate	10.0	9.0	9.1
Crude death rate	rate	4.0	4.2	4.2
Infant mortality rate	rate	8.2	6.2	5.8

Data for Victoria, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory (based on state or territory of usual residence) are excluded due to the small numbers of registered Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths.

Deaths registered

There were 3,518 deaths registered where the deceased person was recorded as being Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, or both.
Increased by 268 deaths from 2017.

Deaths by Indigenous status
State or territory of usual residence	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (no.)	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (%)	Non-Indigenous (no.)	Non-Indigenous (%)	Not stated (no.)	Not stated (%)	Total (no.)
NSW	960	1.8	51,952	96.9	721	1.3	53,633
Vic.	211	0.6	37,844	99.0	176	0.5	38,231
Qld	963	3.1	29,847	96.7	50	0.2	30,860
SA	223	1.6	13,338	98.3	10	0.1	13,571
WA	563	3.8	14,016	95.7	73	0.5	14,652
Tas.	66	1.5	4,210	98.2	11	0.3	4,287
NT	509	45.9	600	54.1	4	0.4	1,110
ACT	22	1.0	2,101	98.8	4	0.2	2,127
Aust.(a)	3,518	2.2	153,913	97.1	1,062	0.7	158,493

Includes Other Territories.

Deaths by year of registration and year of occurrence

While the interval between the occurrence and registration of deaths is often longer for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples than for non-Indigenous, there is little difference between the number registered and occurred in a given year. The number of deaths not registered in the year that they occurred are balanced by deaths that occurred in the previous years but were subsequently registered. Data for the latest year will be underestimated if reported on a year of occurrence basis.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths, state or territory of usual residence by year of registration

	NSW	Vic.	Qld(a)(b)	SA	WA	Tas.	NT	ACT	Aust.(c)
1,999	435	130	529	116	350	11	399	6	1,976
2,000	473	108	535	144	407	8	450	2	2,127
2,001	481	93	565	125	345	32	429	3	2,072
2,002	516	64	590	107	371	20	462	4	2,136
2,003	485	82	569	137	338	23	435	9	2,079
2,004	490	54	579	131	400	20	449	10	2,136
2,005	507	71	519	142	406	28	454	11	2,141
2,006	530	111	584	124	443	20	452	14	2,279
2,007	601	95	594	138	449	24	461	6	2,368
2,008	559	97	562	141	486	24	467	16	2,353
2,009	591	106	632	160	416	30	431	10	2,377
2,010	622	117	948	147	436	37	447	13	2,767
2,011	726	128	629	141	454	30	437	12	2,558
2,012	635	100	678	151	466	45	539	6	2,620
2,013	753	123	765	177	457	27	489	18	2,811
2,014	794	139	688	169	517	31	562	13	2,914
2,015	822	141	842	167	511	50	537	17	3,088
2,016	857	175	884	170	565	54	443	19	3,168
2,017	857	186	897	222	508	52	504	22	3,250
2,018	960	211	963	223	563	66	509	22	3,518

Care should be taken when interpreting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths data for Queensland for 2010. See Technical Note: Queensland Retrospective Deaths Project, and Explanatory Note 36.
From 2015, deaths data provided by the Queensland Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages include information resulting in an improvement in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identification. See Explanatory Note 28.
Includes Other Territories.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths, state or territory of usual residence by year of occurrence(d)

	NSW	Vic.	Qld(a)(b)	SA	WA	Tas.	NT	ACT	Aust.(c)
1,999	433	105	540	117	348	12	438	7	2,000
2,000	480	115	619	140	384	10	429	1	2,178
2,001	487	81	581	122	368	29	430	1	2,100
2,002	508	64	614	108	384	22	471	5	2,178
2,003	494	83	595	144	324	22	419	12	2,095
2,004	481	55	635	134	391	19	437	7	2,161
2,005	508	81	542	140	416	32	496	12	2,230
2,006	531	117	591	123	462	16	454	12	2,307
2,007	599	94	592	140	462	25	464	8	2,384
2,008	559	97	554	144	475	23	491	14	2,358
2,009	596	109	628	147	409	33	440	12	2,375
2,010	640	133	633	149	425	35	429	12	2,457
2,011	711	105	649	148	444	32	484	11	2,584
2,012	666	113	681	158	452	43	508	7	2,628
2,013	757	116	749	166	462	29	508	17	2,806
2,014	796	134	719	177	497	30	545	16	2,915
2,015	798	148	840	157	533	50	501	16	3,044
2,016	862	195	845	178	539	53	459	19	3,151
2,017	896	178	915	226	525	56	511	23	3,332
2,018	864	172	858	198	484	61	376	19	3,033

Care should be taken when interpreting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths data for Queensland for 2010. See Technical Note: Queensland Retrospective Deaths Project, and Explanatory Note 36.
From 2015, deaths data provided by the Queensland Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages include information resulting in an improvement in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identification. See Explanatory Note 28.
Includes Other Territories.
Includes deaths registered up to and including 31 December 2018. The number of deaths presented on a year of occurrence basis is subject to change, as deaths that occurred prior to 31 December 2018 but have not yet been registered are registered in subsequent years. See paragraphs 25 and 26 of the Explanatory Notes in the Methodology for more information.

Age and sex distribution

Deaths of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are more widely spread across younger age groups, whereas deaths of non-Indigenous people are concentrated in the older age groups. This reflects a younger age profile for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population.

Age and sex distribution
	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander males (%)	Non-Indigenous males (%)	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander females	Non-Indigenous females
0-4	2.27	0.37	1.31	0.28
5-9	0.17	0.03	0.20	0.03
10-14	0.26	0.05	0.17	0.03
15-19	1.02	0.17	0.51	0.09
20-24	1.42	0.29	0.51	0.10
25-29	1.65	0.34	0.68	0.12
30-34	1.90	0.42	1.14	0.18
35-39	2.84	0.56	1.45	0.28
40-44	2.73	0.66	1.88	0.41
45-49	4.32	1.04	2.64	0.65
50-54	5.71	1.40	3.70	0.94
55-59	5.54	2.24	4.60	1.40
60-64	5.66	3.06	4.32	1.92
65-69	5.26	4.14	5.14	2.57
70-74	4.89	5.70	3.70	3.68
75-79	3.89	6.54	3.87	4.75
80-84	2.90	7.90	3.41	6.62
85+	2.64	16.94	5.69	24.13

Age and sex distribution

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples five state/territory data

Median ages, age-specific death rates, standardised death rates and infant mortality rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are not included for Victoria, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory as it isn't of sufficient quality. Total five state/territory combines data for the other jurisdictions.

Median age at death

The median age at death for:

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples was 60.2 years, up from 55.8 years ten years ago
non-Indigenous people was 82.0 years, compared with 80.7 years ten years ago

Standardised death rate

The standardised death rate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples:

was 9.1 deaths per 1,000 standard population, lower than 10.0 deaths per 1,000 ten years ago
for males fell to 10.2 from 11.4 ten years ago
for females decreased to 8.1 from 8.8 over the same period
varied across the selected states and territory
was highest in the Northern Territory at 13.2 deaths per 1,000 standard population, and lowest in New South Wales at 6.8 deaths per 1,000

Age-specific death rate

Age-specific death rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples:

were higher in all age groups than those for non-Indigenous people
declined in most age groups with the exception of the 75 years and over age group, compared with ten years ago

The broader 25-54 years age group had the highest age-specific death rates compared to the non-Indigenous population.

Infant mortality rate

The infant mortality rate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples:

was almost twice the rate for non-Indigenous people (5.8 and 3.0 per 1,000 live births respectively)
in the Northern Territory were the highest of the five jurisdictions in both the 2006-2008 (13.5) and 2016-2018 (13.0) periods
for all five state/territories fluctuated over the ten year period due to the small and variable number of registered infant deaths in these jurisdictions

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Table 2: Median age at death, year of occurrence, states, territories and Australia, 2008 to 2018

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Table 3: Deaths, summary, Statistical Area Level 4 - 2012 to 2018

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Table 4: Deaths, summary, Statistical Area Level 2 - 2012 to 2018

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Table 6: Deaths, summary, Remoteness Areas - 2012 to 2018

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Table 7: Deaths, Indigenous status, summary, Remoteness Areas, Australia - 2012 to 2018

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Median age at death

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