Australia's life expectancy rose from 77.8 yrs in 1995 to 83.1 yrs in 2024.
Australia · Health
Longevity, mortality, health system capacity and risk factors.
23 indicators · 22 with data
Australia's healthy life expectancy at birth rose from 68.1 yrs in 2000 to 70.6 yrs in 2021.
Australia's infant mortality fell from 5.7 ‰ in 1995 to 3.1 ‰ in 2024.
Australia's under-5 mortality rate fell from 7.0 ‰ in 1995 to 3.6 ‰ in 2024.
Australia's maternal mortality ratio fell from 9.0 /100k in 1994 to 2.0 /100k in 2023.
Australia's ncd mortality fell from 13.0 % in 2000 to 8.3 % in 2021.
Australia's suicide mortality rate rose from 12.8 /100k in 2000 to 13.1 /100k in 2021.
Australia's mortality caused by road traffic injury fell from 9.9 /100k in 2000 to 4.9 /100k in 2019.
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- Health spendingup +0.5 pts24th of 192
- Current health expenditure per capita (current US$)up +3.8 %8th of 191
- Out-of-pocket expenditure (% of current health expenditure)up +0.7 pts54th of 192
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- Physiciansup +2.8 %24th of 129*
- Nurses and midwivesdown −0.9 %6th of 129
- Hospital bedsup +0.8 %45th of 141*
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- Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12–23 months)unchanged +0.0 pts87th of 192
- Immunization, DPT (% of children ages 12–23 months)down −1.0 pts81st of 192
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- Prevalence of HIV (ages 15–49)unchanged +0.0 pts1st of 148
- Incidence of tuberculosisup +11.3 %45th of 208
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- Safe sanitationup +0.1 pts22nd of 141
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- Safe drinking waterNo data