per 1,000 Indigenous children - Source frequency: annual · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's children in out-of-home care was 52.2 per 1,000 Indigenous children as of June 2025. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 0-17 in out-of-home care at 30 June, per 1,000 Indigenous children, from the Closing the Gap data report. Out-of-home care is one of the starkest gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The rate is a Closing the Gap target area and a direct measure of child safety and family support. Data is sourced from Productivity Commission Closing the Gap annual data report - Table CtG12A.1 (out-of-home care rate, national) and updated annually.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children aged 0-17 in out-of-home care at 30 June, per 1,000 Indigenous children, from the Closing the Gap data report.
Out-of-home care is one of the starkest gaps between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The rate is a Closing the Gap target area and a direct measure of child safety and family support.
Lower is better
Source: Productivity Commission Closing the Gap annual data report - Table CtG12A.1 (out-of-home care rate, national)
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (Productivity Commission Closing the Gap annual data report - Table CtG12A.1 (out-of-home care rate, national)), updated annually. Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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