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General Record of Incidence of Mortality (GRIM) books

Created 12/03/2015

Updated 14/04/2025

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Extracted in machine readable form from the AIHW General Record of Incidence of Mortality (GRIM) books.

GRIM books are Excel workbooks that contain national level, historical and recent deaths data for specific causes of death. The tables present age- and sex-specific counts and rates by cause of death, along with other summary measures.

GRIM books are available for all causes of death combined and 55 other cause of death groupings. They span different years for different causes of death, depending on the data available. GRIM books for some causes of death start at 1907 and they are the only national electronic tabulations of deaths data by cause registered before 1964. Data from 1964 onwards are sourced from the AIHW National Mortality Database. They include mortality data up to 2023.

For more information, please see Deaths data at AIHW or contact us at deaths@aihw.gov.au.

Also available on data.gov.au are the AIHW Mortality Over Regions and Time (MORT) books.

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Field Value
Title General Record of Incidence of Mortality (GRIM) books
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/488ef6d4-c763-4b24-b8fb-9c15b67ece19
Contact Point
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
open.data@aihw.gov.au
Reference Period 01/01/1907 - 31/12/2023
Geospatial Coverage Australia
Data Portal data.gov.au

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on data.gov.au "General Record of Incidence of Mortality (GRIM) books". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/grim-books