Tracking Australia’s heart health

How do we know whether Australia is on track to achieve the Health for Every Heart vision by 2050? 

Health for Every Heart sets out the Heart Foundation’s vision for Australia: that heart health will be achievable for everyone by 2050. It also sets outs the path that the nation needs to take to get there. But how will know if Australia is on track to achieving this vision? 

About the heart health tracker

Setting the baseline

In the first year of our 25-year vision, the heart health tracker displays baseline measures for each indicator that will define the starting point for Australia’s heart health. The baseline measures have been collated from a range of data sources and represent the most recent data available at 1 Jan 2025, the beginning of the Heart for Every Heart 25-year vision. Data collection cycles vary across the data sources so the baseline value of some indicators will be more recent for some than for others. Targets defined by a relative change such as reducing or improving a certain degree will be tracked by relative changes to the baseline value for that indicator.  

Find out more about what the baseline values tell us about Australia’s heart health in 2025.  

Adding new data to the tracker

We will be updating the Heart Health Tracker about every six months. New data that have become available for heart health indicators will be added to the tracker. We can then visualise trends in heart health as more data points are added over time.  

Most data sources used to inform the tracker have data collection cycles that are less frequent than six months, which means that only some indicators will show new data points with each tracker update. Find out more about when to expect new data for each indicator. 

Last updated: July 2026

Next update: December 2027

How we will understand Australia’s progress

As we build data sets for each indicator, we will modify how the tracker looks to more easily visualise trends. The dashboard will also help us to understand if the trends we are seeing are heading in the right direction towards the 25-year target or whether they are getting further away or staying about the same.  

Improving indicators over time

We expect that the set of indicators will be modified over time when new data becomes available in national data sets. This will help us improve the way we track heart health trends in the Australian population for each 25-year target. Indicators in this Health for Every Heart tracker will be reviewed annually for changes in data continuity and for opportunities to improve the indicator set.

Do you have feedback you would like to share with us? Get in touch

contactus@heartfoundation.org.au

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