Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 3.4.1–Infant and young child mortality rate, 2020

Collection and usage attributes

Infants (under 1 year old): 1,000 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator)
Children (0–4 year olds): 100,000 x (Numerator ÷ Denominator)

Calculated separately for each of the two age groups, and for all Australians, Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

Presented as:

• number of deaths per 1,000 live births (infant)
• number of deaths per 100,000 population (child).

Infant mortality rates: The rates for a single year use single year infant deaths for the numerator, and the number of single year live births for the denominator.

Child mortality rates: The rates for a single year use single year data for the numerator, and the number of single year population for the denominator.

• Number of deaths among infants (aged under 1).
• Number of deaths among children (aged 0–4).

• Number of live births and under 1 year old (infant)
• Population aged 0–4 years (child).

2008–2018—National, infants aged under 1.

2008–2018—National by sex, children aged 0–4.

2008–2018—State and territory by sex, infants aged under 1.

2008–2018—State and territory by sex, children aged 0–4.

2008–2018—National by Indigenous status and sex, infants aged under 1.

2008–2018—National by Indigenous status and sex, children aged 0–4.

2011–2018—Primary Health Network, infants aged under 1.

2011–2018—Primary Health Network, children aged 0–4.

2011–2018—National by remoteness areas (Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Remoteness Structure), infants aged under 1

2011–2018—National by remoteness areas (ASGS Remoteness Structure), children aged 0–4.

Some disaggregations may result in numbers too small for publication. Disaggregation by Indigenous status will be based on data only from jurisdictions for which the quality of Indigenous identification is considered acceptable—New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia and Northern Territory.

Most recent data available for 2020 Australian Health Performance Framework reporting: 2018.

Deaths registered in 2015 and earlier are based on the final version of cause of death data; deaths registered in 2016 are based on the revised version; and deaths registered in 2017 and 2018 are based on the preliminary version. Revised and preliminary versions are subject to further revision by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

A number of updates to the ICD-10 were applied to the 2013 causes of death data. Details of the impact of these changes on the mortality data are described in ABS Implementation of the Iris Software: Understanding Coding and Process Improvements.

Prior to 2013, mortality data were coded using ICD-10 2006 version. 2013 data were coded using ICD-10 2013 version; 2014–2017 data were coded using ICD-10 2015 version; 2018 data were coded using ICD-10 2016 version.

Single year data are reported for time series analysis.

Representational attributes

N[NN].N

Indicator conceptual framework

Data source attributes

Accountability attributes

Australian Health Performance Framework

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Relational attributes