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the 18% includes death from or with COVID.

Mortality by selected causes of death

Cause-specific mortality

The following analysis is based only on doctor certified deaths (i.e. coroner referred deaths are not included). Any changes in patterns of coroner referral could affect counts of doctor certified deaths. Some conditions have higher coroner referral rates (ischaemic heart disease, cerebrovascular diseases and to a lesser extent, respiratory diseases and diabetes) so counts for those conditions would be more likely to be affected by such changes.

COVID-19

• Between January and August 2022 there have been 7,727 deaths due to COVID-19 that were certified by a doctor. 1,061 of these deaths occurred in August.
• As the pandemic has progressed the number of people dying with COVID-19 has increased. In August 415 people died with COVID-19 whose underlying cause of death was a disease other than COVID-19.

Other causes of death

• Deaths due to dementia including Alzheimer's disease were 12.5% above the baseline average in August, and 18.9% above the baseline average for the year to August. This equated to an age-standardised death rate of 4.2 per 100,000 people, compared to a baseline average rate of 4.0.
• Deaths due to diabetes were 11.9% above average in August, and were 20.8% higher than the baseline average for the year to August. The age-standardised death rate for August was 1.4 per 100,000 people, compared to a baseline average rate of 1.3.
• While the number of deaths due to cancer was above the baseline average in August, the age standardised rate of 12.7 per 100,000 people was below the baseline average rate of 13.0.
• Deaths due to cerebrovascular disease were 9.2% lower when compared to the average count in August.

• There were 247 deaths due to influenza and pneumonia in August, 44.0% below the baseline average. Of these deaths, 14 were due to influenza (compared to a baseline average of 152) and 233 were due to pneumonia (compared to a baseline average of 289).

• There have been 268 doctor certified deaths due to influenza between January and August 2022, which is 21.9% below the baseline average.

• Overall deaths due to respiratory diseases remain low in August at 13.3% below average.

Provisional Mortality Statistics, Jan - Aug 2022 | Australian Bureau of Statistics (abs.gov.au)