Australia has the 2nd longest living people on the earth at 82.2 years, with low death rates for cancer, heart disease, and stroke. In the future global warming impacts such bush fire, heat waves droughts and will create increased strain on our emergency services.
4. Things have improved AUSTRALIANS are now the second-longest-living people on earth with falling death rates for cancer, heart disease, stroke and injury, but the indigenous population continues to die earlier. Australians' life expectancy is bettered only by the Japanese at 82.2 years. 55 59 79 84
5. Life Expectancy for Indigenous people 79 84 65 59 Death rates among indigenous males and females were at least twice as high, across all age groups, as those for non-indigenous males and females.
7. However… WHO ranking of worlds health systems Health expenditure as a share of GDP, OECD countries 2006
8.
9.
10. Australia’s Hospitals Public Hospitals NSW 229 VIC 144 QLD 178 WA 93 SA 80 TAS 27 ACT 3 NT 5 Population NSW 6.8 MIL VIC 5.2 MIL QLD 4.18 MIL WA 2.11 MIL SA 1.58 MIL TAS 493, 400 ACT 339, 800 NT 215, 000