List of Australian states by life expectancy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of Australian states and territories by estimated life expectancy at birth.
Australia is administratively divided into 6 states, 3 internal territories and several external territories. However, one of the internal territories - Jervis Bay - has population less than 400 people, and is usually not included in statistics as a separate territory.
According to estimation of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, life expectancy at birth in the country in period 2022–2024 was 83.0 years (81.1 for male and 85.1 for female).[1]
According to alternative estimation of the United Nations, in 2023 life expectancy in Australia was 83.92 years (82.10 for male, 85.74 for female).[2]
Estimation of the World Bank Group for 2023: 83.05 years total (81.10 for male, 85.10 for female).[3]
According to estimation of the WHO for 2019, at that year life expectancy in Australia was 82.64 years (80.72 years for male and 84.57 years for female).
And healthy life expectancy was 70.26 years (69.68 years for male and 70.84 years for female).[4]
|
| state | 2019–2021 | Δ1 | 2020–2022 | Δ2 | 2021–2023 | Δ3 | 2022–2024 | total change | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| overall | male | female | F Δ M | overall | male | female | F Δ M | overall | male | female | F Δ M | overall | male | female | F Δ M | |||||
| Australia | 83.3 | 81.3 | 85.4 | 4.1 | −0.1 | 83.2 | 81.2 | 85.3 | 4.1 | −0.2 | 83.0 | 81.1 | 85.1 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 83.0 | 81.1 | 85.1 | 4.0 | −0.3 |
| Capital Territory | 84.5 | 82.7 | 86.3 | 3.6 | −0.4 | 84.1 | 82.2 | 86.0 | 3.8 | −0.5 | 83.6 | 81.7 | 85.7 | 4.0 | 0.2 | 83.8 | 82.0 | 85.8 | 3.8 | −0.7 |
| Western Australia | 83.8 | 81.7 | 85.9 | 4.2 | −0.1 | 83.7 | 81.7 | 85.8 | 4.1 | −0.1 | 83.6 | 81.6 | 85.7 | 4.1 | 0.0 | 83.6 | 81.5 | 85.7 | 4.2 | −0.2 |
| Victoria | 83.7 | 81.7 | 85.7 | 4.0 | −0.2 | 83.5 | 81.6 | 85.5 | 3.9 | −0.1 | 83.4 | 81.5 | 85.4 | 3.9 | 0.0 | 83.4 | 81.5 | 85.4 | 3.9 | −0.3 |
| New South Wales | 83.3 | 81.4 | 85.4 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 83.3 | 81.3 | 85.3 | 4.0 | −0.2 | 83.1 | 81.2 | 85.2 | 4.0 | 0.1 | 83.2 | 81.2 | 85.3 | 4.1 | −0.1 |
| South Australia | 83.1 | 81.0 | 85.3 | 4.3 | −0.1 | 83.0 | 81.0 | 85.1 | 4.1 | −0.1 | 82.9 | 80.9 | 85.0 | 4.1 | 0.0 | 82.9 | 80.9 | 84.9 | 4.0 | −0.2 |
| Queensland | 82.9 | 80.9 | 85.1 | 4.2 | −0.1 | 82.8 | 80.7 | 85.0 | 4.3 | −0.2 | 82.6 | 80.5 | 84.7 | 4.2 | −0.1 | 82.5 | 80.5 | 84.7 | 4.2 | −0.4 |
| Tasmania | 82.3 | 80.3 | 84.4 | 4.1 | 0.0 | 82.3 | 80.3 | 84.3 | 4.0 | −0.2 | 82.1 | 80.2 | 84.0 | 3.8 | −0.1 | 82.0 | 80.3 | 83.7 | 3.4 | −0.3 |
| Northern Territory | 78.6 | 76.3 | 81.0 | 4.7 | −0.2 | 78.4 | 76.2 | 80.7 | 4.5 | −0.1 | 78.3 | 76.4 | 80.4 | 4.0 | 0.5 | 78.8 | 77.0 | 80.7 | 3.7 | 0.2 |
Data source: Australian Bureau of Statistics.[1]
Global Data Lab (2021)
| region | 2019 | 2019 →2020 |
2020 | 2020 →2021 |
2021 | 2019 →2021 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| overall | male | female | F Δ M | overall | overall | male | female | F Δ M | ||||
| Australia on average | 83.11 | 81.12 | 85.10 | 3.98 | 1.21 | 84.32 | 0.21 | 84.53 | 83.17 | 85.84 | 2.67 | 1.42 |
| Capital Territory | 84.17 | 82.44 | 85.90 | 3.46 | 1.23 | 85.40 | 0.21 | 85.61 | 84.53 | 86.65 | 2.12 | 1.44 |
| Victoria | 83.52 | 81.73 | 85.30 | 3.57 | 1.22 | 84.74 | 0.20 | 84.94 | 83.80 | 86.04 | 2.24 | 1.42 |
| Western Australia | 83.46 | 81.33 | 85.60 | 4.27 | 1.22 | 84.68 | 0.21 | 84.89 | 83.38 | 86.35 | 2.97 | 1.43 |
| New South Wales | 83.06 | 81.12 | 85.00 | 3.88 | 1.21 | 84.27 | 0.21 | 84.48 | 83.17 | 85.74 | 2.57 | 1.42 |
| South Australia | 83.01 | 81.02 | 85.00 | 3.98 | 1.21 | 84.22 | 0.20 | 84.42 | 83.07 | 85.74 | 2.67 | 1.41 |
| Queensland | 82.76 | 80.72 | 84.79 | 4.07 | 1.20 | 83.96 | 0.21 | 84.17 | 82.76 | 85.53 | 2.77 | 1.41 |
| Tasmania | 81.64 | 79.91 | 83.38 | 3.47 | 1.20 | 82.84 | 0.19 | 83.03 | 81.92 | 84.11 | 2.19 | 1.39 |
| Northern Territory | 78.30 | 75.84 | 80.76 | 4.92 | 1.15 | 79.45 | 0.19 | 79.64 | 77.76 | 81.46 | 3.70 | 1.34 |
Data source: Global Data Lab[5]
