Australia recorded its lowest ever figure for drownings in the past financial year, a new report has revealed.
The 2018 National Drowning Report by Royal Life Saving Australia (RLSA) was released on Wednesday and shows 249 people drowned in Australian waterways in 2017-18.
That figure is well under the 10-year average of 279 drownings per year, and a 14 per cent reduction on last year.
Of those fatalities 72 per cent were men, with 103 men between the ages of 25-64 dying.
There was a 30 per cent reduction in the total number of children aged 0-4 who drowned in 2017-18, with swimming pool drowning deaths in children under five reducing by 20 per cent when compared to the 10-year average.
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