Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
Between 2016–2018, there were 1,500 CKD-related deaths (as the underlying and/or associated cause) among Indigenous Australians, with a rate of 72 per 100,000 population (includes New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia and Northern Territory only).
After adjusting for differences in the age structure of the populations:
- The death rate among Indigenous Australians was almost 4 times as high as for non-Indigenous Australians (186 and 52 per 100,000, respectively).
- This disparity was higher for females than males― over 4 times as high for Indigenous females (186 and 41 per 100,000, respectively) and 3 times as high for Indigenous males (189 and 66 per 100,00, respectively).
Diseases commonly listed as underlying causes of death for CKD
CKD is often listed as an associated cause when other conditions are the underlying cause of death. In 2018, there were 13,200 deaths where CKD was recorded as an associated cause of death.
CKD was most commonly listed as an associated cause of death for deaths due to:
- diseases of the circulatory system (37%)—mostly coronary heart disease (19%) and other forms of heart disease (11%),
- cancers (19%)
- diseases of respiratory system (8.8%)—mostly chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (3.9%) and pneumonia (2.0%)
- endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (8.8%)—mostly type 2 diabetes (3.7%) and unspecified type of diabetes (2.7%).