Data from federal government program QuadWatch details the deaths of people using quad bikes in Australia over the last six years.

The data shows nine people in Tasmania were killed from 2011-16 with six of them dying while using the bikes for recreation.

There have been two people killed in Australia in the first three weeks of 2017 while on quad bikes.

The latest was a seven-year-old boy from the New South Wales Riverina on Sunday afternoon.

Its believed the boy, a twin, was riding a quad bike with a nine-year-old boy as a pillion passenger when the bike overturned on a corner.

Quad bikes can be used without a licence and it is not mandatory to undertake a training course in Tasmania.

It comes after the state government released an issues paper into quad bike safety in Tasmania, announced on January 8.

Feedback on the issues paper is being sought from the community.

The youngest person to die on quad bikes in Tasmania in the last six years was a 23-year-old man who died while using the bike for recreational use in 2015.

The oldest was a 75-year-old man who also died in 2015 while riding the quad bike for recreational use on an incline.

Out of all the nine cases, eight of them are still open and active cases being investigated by Tasmania Police.

Nationwide, there have been 106 fatalities involving quad bikes over the six-year period.

Of these fatalities, 51 per cent were people riding for recreational use and 49 per cent where using the vehicles while working.

The ages of people killed ranged from four-year-old to 94-years-old with the median age of 46 years.

There is no national standard for quad bikes and people wishing to use one only need to have a car vehicle licence. Courses are also not mandatory to complete, unlike for those wishing to ride a motorcycle.

An inquest into quad bikes deaths in Tasmania was conducted last year in Hobart. 

Anyone who wishes to give feedback on the quad bike safety issues paper can do so online by February 28.