News release

From: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) is giving journalists embargoed access to Deaths in Australia, General Record of Incidence of Mortality (GRIM), and Mortality Over Regions and Time (MORT) books.

• These products include information up to 2019 (before the COVID-19 pandemic).
• Local media outlets can use the information to produce stories on leading causes of death and mortality rates in their region.
• The AIHW will not issue a media release but statistical advice is available.

To access the data, please click the link and follow the instructions below:

• AIHW Secure area
• Your user name is your email address
• Your password is Temporary1$ or what you previously changed it to

Please select ‘Forgot your password’ link if required.

Deaths in Australia:       

• Presents updated data to 2019 on deaths, causes of death and life expectancy in Australia.
• Deaths data are a vital measure of a population’s health, and provides information on patterns of diseases that cause death, by population groups and over time.

GRIM data:

• Presents historical and recent deaths data in an interactive format. Contains age and sex-specific counts and rates by cause of death, alongside other summary measures.
• GRIM data for some causes of death start at 1907 and they are the only national electronic tabulations of deaths data by cause of death registered before 1964.

MORT books:

• MORT Excel workbooks present mortality data and leading causes of death by sex for specific geographical areas in 2015–2019.
• They include number of deaths, rates per population, median age at death, premature deaths, potential years of life lost and potentially avoidable deaths.
• New interactive mapping visualisations are also available presenting data on the total number of deaths and population rates in 2019, as well as leading causes of death in 2015–2019 by geographical areas.

Data are available for the following geographical areas:

• Greater Capital City Statistical Areas (GCCSA), 2015–2019
• Primary Health Network (PHN), 2015–2019
• Local Government Area (LGA), 2015–2019
• Remoteness area, 2015–2019
• Socioeconomic group, 2015–2019
• State and territory, 2015–2019
• Statistical Area Level 4 (SA4), 2015–2019
• Statistical Area Level 3 (SA3), 2015–2019