Victoria, Australia has seen a 400% increase in cases of euthanasia over a five-year period, as the region intends to expand the law further from next year.
According to the annual report released earlier this month, there was a 59.09% increase in instances of euthanasia for the year 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026, when there were 140 cases of euthanasia, compared with the previous year, when there were 88.
The report also reveals that deaths by assisted suicide and euthanasia in 2025-26 accounted for 1.1% of all deaths in Victoria, almost four times higher than the first year of operation in 2019-20, when euthanasia and assisted suicide deaths accounted for 0.3% of all deaths in Victoria.
