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Australian life expectancy trends and inequalities: An outlier among English-speaking countries?
Australia’s has one of the world’s highest life expectancies and was relatively less impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic than other countries. However, Australia is also experiencing several concerning emerging mortality trends found in other English-speaking countries; these include slowing life expectancy increase, relatively high mortality among younger adults, high obesity prevalence and widening socio-economic inequalities. This seminar will explore these emerging trends and inequalities using Census-linked death registration data, with a particular focus on the use of multiple cause of death data to understand Australia’s unique mortality dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic and the role of multimorbidity and risk factors in mortality. It will discuss the findings in comparison to other English-speaking countries and widely relevant issues of quality of cause of death data.
Chair: Wen Su
Date:
13 October 2025, 14:00
Venue:
The Malthouse, Tidmarsh Lane OX1 1NQ
Venue Details:
Redwood Room
Speaker:
Timothy Adair (Melbourne School of Population and Global Health)
Organising department:
Big Data Institute (NDPH)
Organiser:
Louise Allcock (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
LCDS.office@demography.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Louise Allcock
