Sport and recreation injury statistics
Find statistics on injury claims for injuries that happened while playing sport.
Year to date data: 1 January 2025 to 30 September 2025
- 2025 ytd injury costs
- 2025 ytd new and active claims
- Sports claims and costs by year from 2016 to 2025 ytd
- New sport injury claims by common team sports and individual sports for the years 2023, 2024 and 2025 ytd
- Regional breakdown of sports claims
- Caveats to this data
2025 ytd injury cost
$799,799,574
The costs of all active claims in 2025 ytd
New claims
389,548
in 2025 ytd
Active claims
487,647
in 2025 ytd
Sports claims and costs by year
| Year | New claims | Active claims | Cost of active claims |
| 2016 | 501,749 | 569,354 | $544,776,828 |
| 2017 | 486,583 | 556,555 | $571,957,603 |
| 2018 | 468,226 | 547,209 | $612,890,155 |
| 2019 | 455,350 | 537,427 | $621,455,052 |
| 2020 | 402,800 | 486,283 | $633,384,636 |
| 2021 | 418,141 | 507,546 | $694,658,131 |
| 2022 | 421,611 | 502,067 | $731,857,332 |
| 2023 | 452,886 | 539,961 | $839,160,100 |
| 2024 | 487,004 | 585,098 | $1,007,717,196 |
| 2025 ytd | 389,548 | 487,647 | $799,799,574 |
Regional breakdown of sports claims
Did you know – Canterbury has the second-highest number of claims relating to rugby?
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Find out about the work we're involved in to prevent injuries while playing sport:
- A calendar year is 1 January to 31 December.
- 'New' claims are counted in the calendar year they were lodged.
- 'Active' claims have had a payment made on them during that year. Active claims may have been lodged in a different calendar year and can be counted across multiple years.
- 'Costs' don't include payments made for acute treatment in public hospitals.
- A client's age may differ between lodgement date and accident date.
- 'Region' is based on where the accident happened.
- The data was extracted at a point in time and may change if re-run later.