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vertical bar chart showing decline in avoidable deaths

21% fewer

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people died from an avoidable cause between 2001 and 2010. Read more on causes of death at the Indigenous Observatory

Diagram showing two times as many Aboriginal and Torres Stait Islander infants babies are born of low birthweight as non-Indigenous infants

2x

as many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander infants are born of low birthweight as non-Indigenous infants. Read more on infant health at the Indigenous Observatory

Pie chart showing only one per cent of health workforce are Indigenous and even fewer work in health statistics

Only 1%

of people working in the health workforce are Indigenous, and even fewer work with health information or statistics
Pie chart showing health expenditure

$4.6 billion 

of Australia's total health expenditure in 2010–11 was spent on Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people (47% funded by state and territory governments and 45% funded by the Australian Government)
 

These and other facts are becoming more readily available as National Best Practice Guidelines continue to improve how information on Indigenous Australians is collected and linked.