{"id":292118,"date":"2025-11-18T07:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/292118\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T07:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:53:12","slug":"last-year-187268-people-died-in-australia-here-are-nine-key-takeaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/292118\/","title":{"rendered":"Last year 187,268 people died in Australia &#8211; here are nine key takeaways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dementia killed 17,500 Australians last year and is now the country\u2019s leading cause of death, driven by its heavy toll on older women.<\/p>\n<p>New figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show shifting mortality patterns. Here are eight top takeaways:<\/p>\n<p>1. Dementia has overtaken heart disease<\/p>\n<p>More than 17,500 Australians died (median age 88.7) from dementia in 2024, accounting for 9.4% of all deaths.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"d-none message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dementia killed 17,500 Australians last year and is now the country\u2019s leading cause of death, driven by its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,5240,39625,9757,168012,168013,9933,137,2166,89933,9798,44,27393,4086],"class_list":["post-292118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cardiology","tag-death-and-dying","tag-dementia","tag-drug-and-alcohol","tag-drug-and-alcohol-addictions","tag-geriatrics","tag-health","tag-infectious-diseases","tag-influenza-flu","tag-neurology","tag-news","tag-psychiatry","tag-respiratory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}