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Australia's life expectancy at birth was 83.1 years as of January 2025, and the trend is broadly stable. 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 ABS Deaths (Cat. 3302.0); AIHW 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.
GREEN = favourable trend within acceptable band of baseline. AMBER = flat or mild change. RED = unfavourable trend beyond threshold.
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (ABS Deaths (Cat. 3302.0); AIHW), 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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