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Table 1 Average annual age-standardised rates per 1,000 population (95% confidence interval) of all-cause and cause-specific Indigenous mortality.

From: Recent patterns in chronic disease mortality in remote living Indigenous Australians

 

Outer Regional

Remote

Very Remote

Cause of death

1998-2001

2002-2005

1998-2001

2002-2005

1998-2001

2002-2005

All cause

28.6 (26.1 - 31.1)

24.5 (22.2 - 26.8)

47.4 (42.8 - 52.0)

35.7 (31.8 - 39.6)

24.7 (22.4 - 27.0

19.9 (18.0 - 21.8)

Cardiovascular

17.3 (15.2 - 19.4)

14.5 (12.6 - 16.4)

26.5 (22.9 - 30.1)

19.1 (16.1 - 22.1)

12.8 (11.2 - 14.5)

10.7 (9.2 - 12.2)

Diabetes

7.1 (5.7 - 8.5)

6.4 (5.1 - 7.7)

8.8 (6.7 - 10.9)

7.7 (5.8 - 9.6)

5.3 (4.2 - 6.4)

4.6 (3.6 - 5.6)

Renal

5.1 (3.9 - 6.3)

4.6 (3.5 - 5.7)

9.5 (7.2 - 11.8)

7.9 (6.0 - 9.8)

5.6 (4.5 - 6.7)

4.8 (3.8 - 5.8)

  1. See Methods for definitions of causes of deaths and remoteness categories