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Life expectancy went backward in Australia for the first time in three decades during the COVID-19 pandemic. The decline was small, at 0.1 years, Australian Bureau of Statistics data released on Wednesday revealed. But it was still the first fall since the early 1990s, the data for the years 2020 to 2022 showed. An Australian female born today is expected to live 85.3 years, while a male is expected to live for 81.2.
The bureau also noted that the fall was relatively insignificant given the large amounts of deaths due to COVID-19, with more than half of deaths recorded in 2022 occurring amongst people aged older than 80. “This is the first time that deaths across all three years of the COVID-19 pandemic have been used in calculating life expectancy,” Cho said.
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