Injury Deaths Victoria 2020-2023 E-Bulletin Edition 30

<p dir="ltr">This is the thirtieth in a series of regular E-Bulletins that provide an overview of the injury profile for Victoria. This E-Bulletin provides a detailed overview of Victorian injury deaths in the four-year period 2020–2023: the latest available cause of death data held by the Victorian Injury Surveillance Unit (VISU). The E-Bulletin shows trends in injury deaths for the period 2007–2023, although the focus is the latest four-year period. </p><h3>Summary - All Ages </h3><ul><li>In the four-year period 2020–2023, 13037 Victorians died as a result of injury. Seventy-five percent of these deaths were unintentional (n=9744, 74.7%), 23.8% were intentional (n=3107: suicide=2872 & homicide=235) and the remaining 1.4% were classified as undetermined intent (n=186). </li><li>The overall average annual injury death rate was 49.0 per 100,000 population.</li><li>Males were overrepresented accounting for 57.3% (n=5581) of unintentional injury deaths, 74.3% (n=2307) of intentional injury deaths and 63.4% (n=118) of undetermined intent injury deaths.</li><li>Three causes: falls (n=5839, 44.8%), suicide (n=2872, 22.0%) and unintentional poisoning (n=1711, 13.1%) combined accounted for 79.9% of injury deaths.</li></ul><h3>Data Source</h3><p dir="ltr">Data have been extracted from the VISU-held Cause of Death (COD) dataset supplied by the Australian Coordinating Registry (ACR) and based on the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) cause of death data.</p>