The Mortality Working Group of the Actuaries Institute (Australia) has just released our analysis of mortality for the first 11 months of 2024. Total mortality was 1% higher than predicted, almost all because Covid-19 was higher than we predicted. #thread

Protect Trans Youth - National Day of Action across Australia Sat Feb 8. See the events and ways to participate here (via @transjusticeau.bsky.social) - transjustice.org.au/youth/

I’ve just published my annual reading list for 2024, as I’ve done for over a decade. Do check out the whole thing, but here are a few of my particular favourites from this year’s list, which, as always, is a bit of an eclectic mixture. actuarialeye.com/2025/01/13/w...

The Mortality Working Group of the Actuaries Institute (Australia) has just released our analysis of mortality for the first eight months of 2024. Total mortality was 2% higher than predicted, almost all because Covid-19 was higher than we predicted. #thread www.actuaries.digital/2024/12/17/m...

The Australian actuaries Mortality Working Group has released excess mortality estimates for the first eight months of 2024. www.actuaries.digital/2024/12/17/m...

COVID-19 remains a major killer in Australia in 2024, despite a drop in deaths in July, according to our latest analysis at the Actuaries Institute’s mortality committee.

Life expectancy at birth in Australia dropped slightly (by around 0.1-0.2 years to 83.2 at birth) in the latest calculation from the ABS. www.abs.gov.au/statistics/p...

Analysis from the Institute’s Mortality Working Group (MWG) shows COVID-19 remains a major killer in Australia in 2024, with deaths not reducing as fast as expected.