MORE than 174,000 deaths were registered in Australia in 2022 – 12 per cent more than was predicted.
This represents one of the largest excess death levels outside the pandemic in 80 years, according to data from the Actuaries Institute.
Of the additional 20,000 deaths, 10,300 were directly attributed to Covid-19 and 2,900 were linked to the virus in some way.
The remaining 6,600 excess deaths were not related to Covid-19, the data suggested.
Instead, they were mostly related to heart disease and cancer.
Karen Cutter, from the Instituteβs Covid-19 mortality working group, said the levels are “not within normal levels of fluctuation in non-pandemic times”.
