Leading cause of premature mortality in Australia fact sheets

This product (a combination of a web report and fact sheets) from AIHW focuses on the major causes of premature deaths—both overall, and among certain age groups. The leading cause of premature death in 2010–12 was coronary heart disease, accounting for 10% of all deaths in people aged under 75. Lung cancer accounted for almost 9% of premature deaths, and was the second leading cause. More than half of all deaths due to lung cancer were among people younger than 75.
Suicide was the third leading cause of premature mortality in 2010–2012, accounting for 4.5% of premature deaths, with 92% of suicide deaths occurring among people younger than 75.
The web pages are accompanied by 15 fact sheets and 15 General Record of Incidence of Mortality (GRIM) books, looking in greater depth at a range of causes of premature mortality, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, accidental poisoning, assault and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

AIHW 2015. Leading cause of premature mortality in Australia fact sheets. Cat. no. PHE 191-205. Canberra: AIHW.