Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2011) Life expectancy and mortality of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 05 November 2024.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2011). Life expectancy and mortality of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Canberra: AIHW.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Life expectancy and mortality of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. AIHW, 2011.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Life expectancy and mortality of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Canberra: AIHW; 2011.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2011, Life expectancy and mortality of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, AIHW, Canberra.
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Indigenous Australians experience much higher death rates than the non-Indigenous Australians across all age groups and for all major causes of death. In 2004-2008, the age-standardised death rate for Indigenous males was 1.9 times the rate for non-Indigenous males while for Indigenous females it was 2 times the rate of non-Indigenous females. Indigenous life expectancy for 2005-07 was estimated to be 67.2 years for males, 11.5 years lower than for non-Indigenous males, and 72.9 years for females, which was 9.7 years lower than for non-Indigenous females.
21 May 2011 - Addition of a text box in Page 5 (this was added to explain the impact of using 2006 Census-based population denominator on mortality rates). Removal of a sentence from Box 1 (this was to correct an error in the linkage methodology described in the text box).
