This graph shows the age-standardised death rates by cause for most causes for Indigenous and non-Indigenous males. (The causes that were omitted were responsible for very few deaths.)

As the graph shows, the age-standardised death rates for circulatory diseases and cancer among Indigenous males were together about equal to the age-standardised rates from all causes combined among other males. Indigenous males also had relatively high death rates from many other causes, however. Despite under-identification of some proportion of Indigenous deaths (i.e. misclassification of Indigenous deaths as non-Indigenous), Indigenous males still had higher rates of death than non-Indigenous males from virtually every cause, as well as from all causes combined.

The comparisons are similar among females, although as expected the actual rates are lower than for males.