Australia: child mortality by indigenous status 2020

In 2020 the child mortality rate of indigenous peoples in Australia under the age of five was 147.5 deaths per 100,000. By comparison, the non-Indigenous child mortality rate was less than half that of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the country. In 2008 the Australian government made a commitment to achieving equality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through the Closing the Gap framework. One of the commitments made by this framework was to halve the Indigenous child mortality rate in the country over a decade from 2008. Although some progress was made, this target was not achieved.

Child deaths per 100,000 children under age five in Australia from 2008 to 2020, by indigenous status

Characteristic	Indigenous	Non-indigenous
2020	147.5	68.8
2019	154.1	69.5
2018	145.4	69.1
2017	148.4	72.2
2016	143.3	73.6
2015	152.3	78.3
2014	145.3	79.3
2013	147.3	84.1
2012	150.1	88.6
2011	179.2	94.7
2010	180.1	99.3
2009	178.6	100.9
2008	181.6	104.4

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Release date

November 2021

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Region

Australia

Survey time period

2008 to 2020

Supplementary notes

Child mortality rate implies the number of deaths (registered), by Indigenous status, during the calendar year, in the 0 to 4 year old age group, per 100,000 of the Indigenous status estimated resident population of the same age at the mid-point of the year (30 June).

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