Sport and recreation injury statistics
Find statistics on injury claims for injuries that happened while playing sport.
- 2024 ytd injury costs
- 2024 ytd new and active claims
- Sports claims and costs by year from 2015 to 2024 ytd
- New sport injury claims by common team sports and individual sports for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024 ytd
- Regional breakdown of sports claims
- Caveats to this data
2024 injury costs
$205,709,918
The costs of all active claims in 2024 ytd
New claims
111,148
in 2024 ytd
Active claims
180,633
in 2024 ytd
Sports claims and costs by year
| Year | New claims | Active claims | Cost of active claims |
| 2015 | 489,849 | 550,820 | $511,106,184 |
| 2016 | 501,700 | 569,360 | $544,776,656 |
| 2017 | 486,316 | 556,573 | $571,937,764 |
| 2018 | 468,664 | 547,221 | $612,887,971 |
| 2019 | 455,384 | 537,432 | $621,455,738 |
| 2020 | 402,806 | 486,290 | $633,374,798 |
| 2021 | 418,175 | 507,556 | $694,677,071 |
| 2022 | 421,620 | 502,082 | $731,949,368 |
| 2023 | 452,768 | 539,983 | $839,154,780 |
| 2024 ytd | 111,148 | 180,633 | $205,709,918 |
Regional breakdown of sports claims
Did you know – Canterbury has the second-highest number of claims relating to rugby?
More information
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.