deaths per year - Source frequency: annual · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's road deaths was 1,295 deaths per year as of January 2024. Deaths from motor vehicle accidents (V01-V79, V89.2) by year of registration, from the ABS Causes of Death collection. BITRE's monthly road-death bulletins are not machine-readable, so this is the automated annual series. Road deaths are the largest single cause of transport fatalities and a direct measure of road safety. Data is sourced from ABS Causes of Death (Cat. 3303.0) - external causes, total motor vehicle accidents (V01-V79, V89.2), deaths registered and updated annually.
Deaths from motor vehicle accidents (V01-V79, V89.2) by year of registration, from the ABS Causes of Death collection. BITRE's monthly road-death bulletins are not machine-readable, so this is the automated annual series.
Road deaths are the largest single cause of transport fatalities and a direct measure of road safety.
Lower is better
Source: ABS Causes of Death (Cat. 3303.0) - external causes, total motor vehicle accidents (V01-V79, V89.2), deaths registered
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (ABS Causes of Death (Cat. 3303.0) - external causes, total motor vehicle accidents (V01-V79, V89.2), deaths registered), updated annually. Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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