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Table 3 Numbers of cause-specific Indigenous deaths, Australia*.

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

 

Outer Regional

Remote

Very Remote

 

1998-2001

2002-2005

1998-2001

2002-2005

1998-2001

2002-2005

All-cause deaths

1664

1517

1361

1166

1587

1390

Cardiovascular deaths

928

827

696

577

760

685

Diabetes deaths

369

349

223

218

313

279

Renal deaths

281

267

245

227

321

298

Mid-period population

34,708

38,109

15,778

17,369

32,667

35,957

  1. * includes New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory.
  2. See Methods for definitions of causes of deaths and remoteness categories.
  3. The numbers of cause-specific are multiple cause of deaths numbers and do not sum up to the number of all-cause deaths.
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