COVID-19 in Australia

COVID-19 · Australia · 5 WHO events across 5 calendar years (2020–2024).

Event log

Year	DON ID	ICD-10	ICD-11
2024	Coronavirus dashboard	U071	25RA01
2023	Coronavirus dashboard	U071	25RA01
2022	Coronavirus dashboard	U071	25RA01
2021	Coronavirus dashboard	U071	25RA01
2020	Coronavirus dashboard	U071	25RA01

Annual cadence

Year	Events
2024	1
2023	1
2022	1
2021	1
2020	1

Most active year: 2024 with 1 event.
No quiet years in range.

Position within the disease

• Australia is rank #107 of 231 for this disease.
• The country sits in the WHO WPR region.
• Last reported event: 2024 (2 years ago).

Regional peers (WPR)

25 countries in this region report this disease. Median event count: 4.

Country	Events
New Zealand	6
Brunei Darussalam	6
China	6
Samoa	5
Singapore	5
Australia ←	5
Malaysia	5
Cambodia	5

How this disease ranks among Australia’s threats

COVID-19 is rank #1 of 10 diseases reported by Australia to the WHO. The full country profile is at the Australia Hub.

Australia health system snapshot

Indicator	2023
Population	26,000,000
Life expectancy	83.00 yr
Healthy life expectancy	72.80 yr
Hospital beds /1k	3.80
Physicians /1k	4.00
Healthcare spending % GDP	10.70%
DTP3 vaccination	95.00%
TB incidence /100k	5.00
HIV prevalence	0.10%