IFM Investors chief economist, Alex Joiner, has posted some interesting charts on Twitter showing how a record 53,200 number of Australians died in Q3 2022:
Per capita deaths had been trending lower for decades, However, this trend clearly broke in 2022 with deaths per 1,000 people soaring to 7.2 – its highest level since the late 1980s:
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The surge in deaths pushed down Australia’s natural population growth (i.e. births minus deaths) to just 114,800 in the year to September:
