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Healthy life expectancy in Australia: patterns and trends 1998 to 2012
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Topic: Life expectancy & deaths
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AIHW (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare) (2014) Healthy life expectancy in Australia: patterns and trends 1998 to 2012, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 25 June 2026.
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Life expectancy measures how many years, on average, a person can expect to live if current death rates do not change. This bulletin describes, within a person's life expectancy, the expected years spent living with and without disability and examines changes between 1998 and 2012.
- ISSN: 1446-9820
- ISBN: 978-1-74249-664-1
- Cat. no: AUS 187
- Pages: 28
Findings from this report:
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The disability-free life expectancy of Australians at birth has increased
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Older Australians have also seen increases in the expected number of healthy years
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The gender gap in the expected years living free of disability reduced across most ages