Extracted in machine readable form from the AIHW Mortality Over Regions and Time (MORT) books.
MORT books are Excel workbooks that contain recent deaths data for specific geographical areas, sourced from the AIHW National Mortality Database. They present summary deaths statistics by sex for each geographic area, including counts, rates, median age at death, premature deaths, potential years of life lost and potentially avoidable deaths. The workbooks also present leading causes of death by sex for each geographic area.
The latest MORT books present data for 2018–2022. MORT books from previous years are available on the AIHW website. It should be noted that due to changes in geographical boundaries, disease definitions, cause of death data revisions, and revisions in population data over time, data presented in MORT books from previous years may not match that in later releases.
For more information, please see Deaths data at AIHW or contact us at deaths@aihw.gov.au.
Also available on data.gov.au are the AIHW General Record of Incidence of Mortality (GRIM) books.