Notes
Latest data update
- ABS National Health Measures Survey, 2022–24
- ABS National Health Measures Survey 2022
- ABS National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Survey 2022–23
- ABS National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Measures Survey, 2022–24
- AIHW National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) 2023–24
- AIHW National Mortality Database (NMD) 2024
- 2023–24 expenditure data
- Data table: HSVD Australian facts added to Data.
- ABS Survey of Disability, Ageing and Carers (SDAC) 2022
- This release includes acute coronary events and stroke events data based on:
- National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) 2023–24
- National Mortality Database (NMD) 2023
- Data table: HSVD Australian facts added to Data.
- National Hospital Morbidity Database (NHMD) 2021–22
- National Mortality Database (NMD) 2022
- Australian Burden of Disease Study 2024
- Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry (ANZDATA) 2022
- Data table: HSVD Australian facts added to Data.
Update to Heart, stroke and vascular disease Summary page including:
- New 2021–22 hospitalisations data
- New 2022 deaths data
- New 2022–23 emergency department data
- Data table: Heart, stroke and vascular disease: Australian facts added to Data.
- New 2023 Australian Burden of Disease Study data
- New 2020–21 expenditure data
- Data table: HSVD Australian facts added to Data.
- New 2020 and 2021 mortality data
- New 2022 Australian Burden of Disease Study data
- New 2019–20 expenditure data
- New 2021–22 Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme data
- Data table: HSVD Australian Facts added to Data.
- New 2020–21 hospitalisations data and updates to information relating to COVID 19.
- Data table: HSVD Australian Facts added to Data.
Amendments
18 June 2025 – On Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease, incorrect figure references have been updated.
Acknowledgements
The Heart, stroke and vascular disease: Australian facts report was produced by staff from the Cardiovascular, Diabetes and Kidney Unit at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
Valuable input was received from AIHW’s Cardiovascular Disease Expert Advisory Group and the Heart Foundation.
The Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing funded this report.