Dementia accounts for more than one in 10 Australian deaths for first time
ABS data shows mortality rates back to pre-COVID trend, asthma deaths at decade high and Indigenous suicides at record level
Dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, accounted for more than 10 per cent of all deaths in Australia for the first time, new Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data shows. The figures, released on Tuesday, also show overall mortality rates have returned to their pre-COVID trend, asthma deaths hit a decade high and drug-induced deaths rose.