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Australia's life expectancy at birth was 83.1 years as of January 2024. Average number of years a newborn is expected to live, based on current mortality rates. Life expectancy is a broad measure of population health and quality of healthcare and living conditions. Data is sourced from World Bank (SP.DYN.LE00.IN), which tracks the ABS life tables; persons, labelled by the end year of the ABS three-year period and updated annually.
Average number of years a newborn is expected to live, based on current mortality rates.
Life expectancy is a broad measure of population health and quality of healthcare and living conditions.
Higher is better
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (World Bank (SP.DYN.LE00.IN), which tracks the ABS life tables; persons, labelled by the end year of the ABS three-year period), updated annually. The source link above points to the human-readable publication page, which presents the same underlying data in a different format (e.g. Excel workbook, PDF release). Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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