Notes
Scope of this report
This report presents information on 1,829,829 emergency department (ED) presentations and 584,539 hospitalisations with a primary diagnosis of injury between 1 July 2024 and 30 June 2025. Data on 15,765 deaths is presented where injuries are recorded in finalised cause of death records from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024.
This report updates information about injuries overall annually. Each specific cause of injury will be separately updated throughout the year.
Trends over the preceding decade of injury hospitalisations between 1 July 2015 and 30 June 2025, and injury deaths between 1 July 2014 and 20 June 2024 are included in this report.
Please refer to the technical notes for further details on methodology, including inclusion and exclusion criteria for counting injuries in ED, hospital and deaths data sources.
Amendments
20 November 2025 – A delay in receiving clearance from all Australian jurisdictions for the AIHW to release data on injury emergency department presentations at the level of state and territory resulted in removal of affected data tables prior to the embargo date. Clearance was subsequently received during the embargo period, on 17 November 2025.
14 July 2025 – On the Data page, State level data tables have been made available once more.
Acknowledgements
Injury in Australia was prepared by staff in the Injury Data Unit at the AIHW.
The project was funded by the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing.