Trends in injury deaths, Australia, 1999–00 to 2016–17

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Release Date: 13 Nov 2019

Topic: Injury

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2019) Trends in injury deaths, Australia, 1999–00 to 2016–17, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 19 April 2024.

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This report focuses on trends in injury deaths that occurred over the period 1999–00 to 2016–17. The age-standardised rate of injury deaths decreased from 55.4 to 47.2 deaths per 100,000 between 1999–00 and 2004–05 and has changed little after that. Rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were generally at least twice as high as rates for non-Indigenous Australians over the period from 2001–02 to 2016–17.

Also see Injury in Australia for more recent trends data.

ISSN: 2205-510X
ISBN: 978 1 76054 650 2
Cat. no: INJCAT 207
Pages: 132

Findings from this report:

There were 13,144 injury-related deaths in 2016–17, corresponding to a rate of 48 deaths per 100,000 population
The 2 main causes of injury deaths in 2016–17 were unintentional falls (38%) and suicide (23%)
The rate of injury deaths declined between 1999–00 and 2004–05 and remained relatively steady thereafter
Rates of injury death increased with socioeconomic disadvantage

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30 Nov 2020 - In Table 2.7, the number of injury deaths for Indigenous females aged 5–14 has been amended from 30 to 3.

4 Mar 2020 - In a previous version the age-standardised rates of unintentional transport injury deaths for females for 2012–13 and 2013–14 in Supplementary table SF3.2 were incorrectly reported as 0.0. These have now been amended to 3.3 and 2.9, respectively.

14 Nov 2019 - Updates to the following were made:

rates for all persons in supplementary tables SF3.2, SF4.3, SF10.2 and SF11.2
all-ages counts and rates in supplementary table SF6.2
references to age-standardised rates in the first paragraph of section 10.4 and the caption of Figure 10.1 (replacing references to crude rates).

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