ABS release new model for measuring “excess mortality” in Australia, lowering the numbers!

On July 19, 2023 the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released a new model for how they officially will be measuring Australia’s pandemic excess mortality, retrospective to the pandemic begining and following 2 years of high excess mortality.  A strategy that has higher “expected” deaths on average which in turn makes the excess deaths figure appear lower.  Especially when compared with the Provisional Mortality Statistics (PMS) the published monthly.

According to the PMS, there have been 50,555 excess deaths in Australia from January 2020 to December 2023, but the ABS new “official” statistic is 24,351, half the number! [1]

Just 4 months earlier on March 24, 2023 the Australian government voted NOT to investigate the “concerning number of excess deaths in Australia in 2021 and 2022.” [2]