Provisional Mortality Statistics

Latest release

Provisional deaths data for measuring changes in patterns of mortality

Reference period

Jan - Feb 2025

Released

30/05/2025

Next release 27/06/2025

Key statistics

27,536 deaths occurred in January and February 2025, 4.6% fewer than 2024 and 1.3% fewer than 2023.
12,887 deaths occurred in February 2025, 7.0% fewer than 2024 and 1.3% fewer than 2023.

This publication presents the number of deaths occurring by week and month. From April 2025, deaths occurring in 2025 will be presented. Key considerations are:

Deaths occurring in 2025 will have two comparison points: 2023 and 2024. This is the same format for deaths that occurred in 2024, which were compared to 2022 and 2023. Reasons for this presentation of data has been outlined in previous publications.
A time series of weekly and monthly deaths occurring from 2015 is available in the data downloads section of this publication. Customised datasets are able to be created from these data cubes.
The data in this publication is not an excess mortality estimate. Excess mortality estimates to December 2023 are available in published articles from the following links: ‘Measuring Australia’s excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic until December 2023’ (published 28 June 2024), and excess mortality estimates by remoteness areas (published 28 February 2025).
More detailed analysis on mortality from influenza and respiratory syncytial virus and COVID-19 are provided in the article: 'Deaths due to COVID-19, influenza and RSV in Australia - 2023 - March 2025'.

Australian deaths by week

All-cause deaths

For all deaths:

In January and February 2025, there were 27,536 deaths that were registered by 30 April 2025. This is 1,325 deaths (4.6%) fewer than in 2024, and 360 (1.3%) fewer than in 2023.
12,887 deaths occurred in February 2025. This is 973 deaths (7.0%) fewer than in 2024, and 173 (1.3%) fewer than in 2023. February in 2024 had 29 days, contributing to a higher proportional decrease between 2024 and 2025.
11,347 of the deaths occurring in February 2025 were doctor certified and 1,540 were coroner referred.

In April 2025, the ABS received 13,394 death registrations. Of these, 13,136 deaths occurred in 2025, 216 occurred in 2024 and the remaining 42 occurred in 2023 or earlier years.

Deaths are presented by counts only. Counts of death do not account for changes in population.

All deaths, Australia, 2 January 2023 - 23 February 2025 (a)(b)(c)
	2025 deaths	2024 deaths	2023 deaths
Week 1	3,364	3,446	3,497
Week 2	3,404	3,396	3,286
Week 3	3,329	3,348	3,331
Week 4	3,259	3,456	3,227
Week 5	3,180	3,274	3,372
Week 6	3,243	3,340	3,213
Week 7	3,249	3,389	3,302
Week 8	3,209	3,368	3,245
Week 9		3,299	3,304
Week 10		3,471	3,382
Week 11		3,389	3,416
Week 12		3,267	3,326
Week 13		3,416	3,304
Week 14		3,455	3,283
Week 15		3,476	3,481
Week 16		3,393	3,540
Week 17		3,410	3,506
Week 18		3,534	3,534
Week 19		3,480	3,782
Week 20		3,612	3,810
Week 21		3,825	3,837
Week 22		3,815	3,940
Week 23		3,932	3,723
Week 24		4,021	3,634
Week 25		3,964	3,861
Week 26		4,196	3,762
Week 27		4,001	3,835
Week 28		3,893	3,724
Week 29		4,064	3,745
Week 30		4,000	3,755
Week 31		3,920	3,655
Week 32		3,906	3,647
Week 33		3,945	3,702
Week 34		3,685	3,548
Week 35		3,717	3,524
Week 36		3,578	3,476
Week 37		3,482	3,563
Week 38		3,486	3,382
Week 39		3,612	3,467
Week 40		3,401	3,367
Week 41		3,406	3,546
Week 42		3,542	3,336
Week 43		3,446	3,339
Week 44		3,347	3,463
Week 45		3,379	3,534
Week 46		3,303	3,542
Week 47		3,415	3,410
Week 48		3,352	3,470
Week 49		3,337	3,440
Week 50		3,421	3,395
Week 51		3,307	3,440
Week 52		3,256	3,368

All deaths, Australia, 2 January 2023 - 23 February 2025 (a)(b)(c)

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a. Data is by occurrence.
b. Data is provisional and subject to change.
c. Weeks are defined as seven-day periods which start on a Monday as per the ISO week date system. Refer to 'Weekly comparisons' on the methodology page of this publication for more information regarding the data in this graph. Week 1 ended 9 Jan 2022, 8 Jan 2023 and 7 Jan 2024.

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

In February 2025 there were 128 deaths due to COVID-19 that were certified by a doctor, down from 240 deaths in January. The 128 deaths in February 2025 were 52.9% fewer than the 272 deaths in February 2024 and 43.1% fewer than the 225 deaths in February 2023. In January and February 2025 there have been 368 deaths due to COVID-19 that were certified by a doctor. This is 47.4% fewer than 2024 and 61.0% fewer than 2023.
As the pandemic has progressed the number of people dying 'with' COVID-19 has increased. In February 2025 there were 32 people who died with COVID-19 being identified (via death certificates) as a contributing factor to their death (ie. COVID-19 was certified on the death certificate but it was not the underlying cause of death).

Other causes of death

In February 2025, deaths due to cancer, respiratory diseases and ischaemic heart disease were all at least 7% fewer than in February 2024. Deaths due to diabetes, ischaemic heart disease and cerebrovascular diseases were all at least 9% fewer in February 2025 than in February 2023.
Deaths due to dementia were 4.7% higher in February 2025 than in February 2024 and 6.8% higher than in February 2023.
In January and February 2025, deaths due to respiratory diseases were 2.3% lower than in 2024 but 11.4% higher than in 2023.

Doctor certified deaths by cause, 2024, 2023, 2022 (a)(b)
			February			January - February
			2025	2024	2023	2025	2024	2023
Cancer			3,855	4,150	3,862	8,065	8,383	8,020
Dementia			1,264	1,207	1,184	2,649	2,572	2,493
Respiratory diseases			976	1,057	894	2,148	2,198	1,929
	Chronic lower respiratory diseases		548	578	497	1,180	1,195	1,066
	Influenza and pneumonia		192	189	128	408	399	298
		Pneumonia	163	163	123	352	346	288
Ischaemic heart disease			842	909	936	1,838	1,938	1,973
Other cardiac conditions			726	717	709	1,514	1,560	1,493
Cerebrovascular diseases			591	627	650	1,241	1,324	1,363
Diabetes			353	367	437	751	797	882
COVID-19			128	272	225	368	699	944

a. Only doctor certified deaths are included.
b. Data is by date of occurrence.

Deaths due to acute respiratory infections

The ABS codes an underlying cause of death (UCOD) for all deaths in the national mortality dataset. The underlying cause of death is defined as the disease, condition or external event that started the chain of events leading to death. International coding rules are applied to disease and conditions appearing on the medical certificate of cause of death (MCCD) to assign the UCOD. A disease or condition must be certified on the MCCD to be coded by the ABS. If COVID-19, influenza or RSV is listed as the underlying cause of death, the death is considered to have been caused by the virus.

The following table shows the number of deaths due to acute respiratory diseases since 2023. This table also includes deaths certified by a coroner, meaning the number of deaths may differ from analysis on doctor-certified deaths.

There were 514 deaths from COVID-19 in the first three months of 2025. In 2023 there were 1,261 deaths between January and March, while in 2024 there were 998.
There have been 100 deaths due to influenza in the first three months 2025, an increase of 72 deaths compared to the same period in 2024 and 24 deaths in the same period in 2023.
There have been 14 deaths due to RSV in the first three months of 2025.

Deaths due to acute respiratory infections by month, 2023-2025(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)(f)
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	All
2023 - COVID-19	753	236	272	440	636	607	337	164	155	203	408	398	4,609
2023 - Influenza	8	5	11	27	46	76	112	37	32	44	35	34	467
2023 - RSV	np	np	np	np	8	14	19	19	9	12	6	5	101
2024 - COVID-19	443	289	266	230	450	677	489	316	150	142	194	225	3,871
2024 - Influenza	27	26	19	32	49	94	218	207	53	31	17	12	785
2024 - RSV	np	np	6	17	20	24	19	15	9	8	7	np	135
2025 - COVID-19	240	128	106	40	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	514
2025 - Influenza	27	29	44	24	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	124
2025 - RSV	7	np	np	np	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	14

a. Includes acute respiratory infection death registrations only. Numbers will differ to disease surveillance systems.
b. Includes all deaths (both doctor and coroner certified) that occurred and were registered by 30 April 2025.
c. All deaths due to COVID-19 in this report have been coded to ICD-10 codes U07.1-U07.2, U10.9. All deaths due to influenza have been coded to J09-J11. All deaths due to RSV have been coded to J12.1, J205, J21.0, B34.8 with B97.4.
d. Data is provisional and subject to change.
e. Refer to the methodology for more information regarding the data in this table.
f. np refers to data that is not publishable. na refers to data that is not available.

Deaths with contributing acute respiratory infections by month

The table below shows the number of acute-respiratory associated deaths where the person has died “with” the virus (a person has died from another cause but the viral illness contributed to death).

There are more deaths from COVID-19 and Influenza than with these conditions. For RSV, there are substantially more people who died with RSV than from RSV.
There were 33 death with RSV in the first three months of 2025.
Since November 2024 there have been substantially fewer deaths with COVID-19 than there were in the corresponding month of the previous year.

Deaths with acute respiratory infections by month, 2023-2025(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)(f)
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	All
2023 - COVID-19	233	120	118	153	193	201	99	79	59	62	113	149	1,579
2023 - Influenza	7	0	np	10	7	20	36	15	11	14	11	5	140
2023 - RSV	np	5	8	20	27	48	51	48	28	23	7	9	275
2024 - COVID-19	150	104	75	73	118	185	127	66	50	60	45	62	1,115
2024 - Influenza	7	10	10	10	10	23	50	61	23	8	5	np	221
2024 - RSV	8	12	18	28	47	63	49	39	22	18	13	13	330
2025 - COVID-19	68	32	29	7	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	136
2025 - Influenza	7	np	7	np	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	20
2025 - RSV	10	6	17	6	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	na	39

a. Includes acute respiratory infection death registrations only. Numbers will differ to disease surveillance systems.
b. Includes all deaths (both doctor and coroner certified) that occurred and were registered by 30 April 2025.
c. All deaths with COVID-19 in this report have been coded to ICD-10 codes U07.1-U07.2, U10.9 or U09.9. All deaths with influenza have been coded to J09-J11. All deaths with RSV have been coded to J12.1, J20.5, J21.0, B97.4 with UCOD other than B34.8.
d. Data is provisional and subject to change.
e. Refer to the methodology for more information regarding the data in this table.
f. np refers to data that is not publishable. na refers to data that is not available.

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