{"id":3945,"date":"2023-12-20T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=3945"},"modified":"2023-12-20T02:24:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T07:24:17","slug":"australias-mortality-rate-is-more-than-6pc-higher-than-expected-new-australian-bureau-of-statistics-report-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/australias-mortality-rate-is-more-than-6pc-higher-than-expected-new-australian-bureau-of-statistics-report-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s mortality rate is more than 6pc higher than expected, new Australian Bureau of Statistics report reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 is still a \u201ckey contributor\u201d to higher death rates as new data reveals Australia&#8217;s nationwide mortality rate is sitting at more than six per cent higher than expected.<\/p>\n<p>The national excess mortality rate for the first eight months of 2023 shows deaths are estimated at 6.1 per cent above expected levels.<\/p>\n<p>It marks a drop from 14.1 per cent higher than expected mortality rates during the same period in 2022, according to data released this week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 is still a \u201ckey contributor\u201d to higher death rates as new data reveals Australia&#8217;s nationwide mortality rate is sitting at more than six per cent higher than expected.<\/p>\n<p>The national excess mortality rate for the first eight months of 2023 shows deaths are estimated at 6.1 per cent above expected levels.<\/p>\n<p>It marks a drop from 14.1 per cent higher than expected mortality rates during the same period in 2022, according to data released this week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/australias-mortality-rate-is-more-than-6pc-higher-than-expected-new-australian-bureau-of-statistics-report-reveals\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Australia\u2019s mortality rate is more than 6pc higher than expected, new Australian Bureau of Statistics report reveals<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[407,742,18,150,98,99,100,14,230],"class_list":["post-3945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-australia","tag-australian-bureau-of-statistics","tag-covid-19","tag-deaths","tag-excess-deaths","tag-excess-mortality","tag-mortality-rates","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-statistics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3946,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions\/3946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}