aus_mortality {vital}

Australian mortality data

Description

aus_mortality is an annual vital with three values:

Mortality:	Mortality rate
Exposure:	Population at 30 June each year
Deaths:	Number of deaths

Format

Time series of class vital

Details

The data is disaggregated using four keys:

Age:	Age at death
Sex:	male or female
State:	State of Australia
Code:	Short code for state

The age group 100 also includes people who died aged older than 100. The data up to 1970 were taken from the Australian Demographic Data Bank (https://pkg.robjhyndman.com/addb/). From 1971, the data come from the Australian Human Mortality Database (https://aushd.org). There may be some discontinuities introduced due to different methods being used to prepare the data before and after 1971. Note that "ACTOT" includes both the ACT and overseas territories and is only available up to 2003. The data exclusively from the ACT begins in 1971.

Source

Australian Human Mortality Database

Examples

library(ggplot2)
aus_mortality
aus_mortality |>
  dplyr::filter(State=="Victoria", Sex != "total") |>
  autoplot(Exposure) +
  ylab("Population at 30 June (thousands)")