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Jan 31, 2024 · Over 60% of those who died from COVID-19 in 2023 were born in Australia. This has risen from around 30% in 2021 and around 55% in 2022. Around 30% of the people who died from COVID-19 in 2023 who were born overseas were born in the United Kingdom or Ireland.
The actual death toll from COVID-19 is likely to be higher than the number of confirmed deaths – this is due to limited testing and challenges in the attribution of the cause of death. The difference between confirmed deaths and actual deaths varies by country. How COVID-19 deaths are determined and recorded may differ between countries.
- Hannah Ritchie, Edouard Mathieu, Lucas Rodés-Guirao, Cameron Appel, Charlie Giattino, Esteban Ortiz-...
- 2020
This article contains the number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths per population as of 21 May 2024, by country. It also has cumulative death totals by country. For these numbers over time see the tables, graphs, and maps at COVID-19 pandemic deaths and COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory.
CountryDeaths / MillionDeathsCases8837,048,285775,433,0746,485220,8314,524,7485,70638,7001,329,2665,06816,388403,638- Weekly and Cumulative Deaths
- Age Standardised Death Rates
- Measuring Australia’s Excess Mortality During The Covid‑19 Pandemic
- Notes
The number of deaths each week from January through to December was generally higher in 2021 than the 2015‑19 average (Chart 1). In 2021, there were a total of 149,200 doctor‑certified deaths which was higher than the number of deaths in 2020 (141,500) and above the 2015‑19 average (140,600). Compared with the 2015‑19 average, there were slightly m...
Age standardised death rates allow comparison of mortality trends across populations of different size and age structure. They are expressed as deaths per 100,000 population. In 2021, age standardised death rates for doctor‑certified deaths have been lower when compared to the 2015‑19 average (Chart 2). The age standardised death rate for 2021 was ...
Excess mortality is an epidemiological concept defined as the difference between the number of observed and expected deaths in a specified time period. Excess deaths account for deaths beyond natural variation such as deaths due to COVID‑19, potentially undiagnosed COVID‑19 deaths, and other mortality that may be indirectly related to the pandemic ...
Data for this release includes doctor‑certified deaths that occurred by 31 December 2021 and were registered by 28 February 2022. Provisional data in this release only includes doctor‑certified deaths, and therefore not comparable with the annual Deaths andCauses of Deathdata released by the ABS, which also include coroner‑certified deaths. Each ye...
May 15, 2022 · Yet Australia’s Covid death rate sits at one-tenth of America’s, putting the nation of 25 million people (with around 7,500 deaths) near the top of global rankings in the protection of life....
- Damien Cave
Jul 20, 2022 · Australia is nearing the numbers of Covid hospitalisations and daily deaths it saw in the January peak. But Australia is just one of many countries that appear to be caught in a series of...
Jul 4, 2022 · According to data from individual states and territories, Australia's national death toll passed 10,000 over the weekend. The federal health department's official COVID-19 website lists the total ...
