Australia’s COVID-19 death toll has passed 10,000. Here’s how our national tally compares to other countries

More than two years after the pandemic began, Australia’s COVID-19 death toll has passed 10,000. 

The first COVID-19 case was reported in Australia in January, 2020.

Australia’s first death was recorded in March, 2020. 

According to data from individual states and territories, Australia’s national death toll passed 10,000 over the weekend.

However, the national figures on the federal health department’s official COVID-19 website hadn’t caught up by Monday because of a lag in data reporting. 

So let’s dig into the numbers from federal data collected up to July 1.

As of Friday, 9,930 people had died with the virus since the beginning of the pandemic. 

At that time, there were 3,272 people in hospital with the virus, with 106 of those in intensive care and 27 on ventilators.

How many infections have been recorded in Australia?

More than 8 million: The National Interoperable Notifiable Disease Surveillance System  (NINDSS) data up to July 1 shows there were exactly 8,156,829 cases in Australia, but those are only the confirmed cases that have been reported. 

It’s thought the true number of infections is much higher, due to limited testing. 

What’s the COVID-19 death rate in Australia?

Based on federal statistics from July 1, 0.12 per cent of confirmed reported COVID-19 cases in Australia have died.

That’s 9,930 deaths from 8,156,829 cases.

How do we compare to the rest of the world?

More than 545 million COVID-19 cases have been reported around the world since the pandemic began, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) latest data on Monday.

The WHO has recorded more than 6 million COVID-19 deaths.  

Again, these are just confirmed reported cases. 

Here are the 10 countries with the most deaths, according to official figures from the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center:

By comparison, Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center found that, over the same period, Australia’s deaths per 100,000 population stood at 39.33.

What’s the age breakdown of Australia’s COVID-19 deaths?

The demographic with the most deaths is males aged 80 to 89 years, according to federal government figures up to July 1. 

That’s followed closely by females aged 80 to 89 years. 

That same data showed the 10-19 age group had the least deaths, followed closely by the 0-9 age group. 

Here’s the full data from The National Interoperable Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (NINDSS) up to July 1:

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