Health for Every Heart
Health for Every Heart
Tracking Australia’s heart health
About the heart health tracker
Over time, this tracker will help us understand if Australia is heading in the right direction to achieve heart health for everyone by 2050.
The heart health tracker brings together 46 indicators that we will use to measure the nation’s progress over time towards the four goals set out in Health for Every Heart, our 25-year vision for Australia’s heart health. The tracker will tell us whether Australia is taking steps in the right direction and where the nation may need to re-focus its efforts to get us back on course.
Tracking national heart health progress
Using national data sets, we can track the nation’s progress towards our 25-year heart health vision, Health for Every Heart.
Australia’s 2025 baseline indicators
In 2025, the tracker shows Australia’s starting point (baseline values) for each heart health indicator. More data will be added over the lifespan of the 25-year vision.
Current data gaps in heart health
There are data gaps in some heart health areas that currently limit how we can track progress towards some of our heart health targets.
Improving indicators with new data
New data may become available that means we have better indicators to understand how our heart health is tracking.
Updates to the tracker
In the first year of our 25-year vision, the tracker will display the baseline measure for each indicator, which helps define the starting point for Australia’s heart health. In future updates, more data will be added so that Australia’s heart health progress can be visualised as a dashboard displaying a set of national indicators of heart health over time. By monitoring these indicators, we can work out which areas of people’s heart health are staying about the same, improving or declining.
In some areas of heart health, data development will be needed to modify this set of indicators and improve the way we track some of the heart health targets set out in Health for Every Heart. We expect that the set of indicators will be updated as new data sources become available, and research outcomes demonstrate other risk factors that could better inform us about the nation’s heart health.
Last updated: December 2025
Next update: June 2026
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About Health for Every Heart
Health for Every Heart is the Heart Foundation’s 25-year vision: that heart health achievable for everyone in Australia by 2050. In Health for Every Heart, we set out four goals for Australia that address the diverse and complex factors influencing people’s heart health and the actions that we need to take as a nation to achieve them.
Read more our 25-year vision on the Health for Every Heart website, including:
- Our vision for Australia’s heart health in 2050
- Our blueprint for change – how we plan to achieve this vision
- Four heart health goals and specific actions that support the 2050 vision
- Twelve heart health targets and how we intend to measure them
References
- Australian Bureau of Statistics. Causes of death, Australia. Accessed 28 November, 2025. https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/causes-death/causes-death-australia/latest-release
Goal 1: Advance heart health equity