COVID-19 has continued to impact the lives of people in Australia. Analysing all-cause mortality can provide a more complete assessment of the overall impact of the pandemic (rather than a focus on COVID-19 mortality alone). This measure is referred to as excess mortality, typically defined as the difference between the observed number of deaths in a specified time period and the expected numbers of deaths in that same time period. Excess mortality measures can account for deaths due to COVID-19, potentially misclassified or undiagnosed COVID-19 deaths, and other mortality that may be indirectly related to the pandemic (e.g. relating to social isolation or changed access to health care)
