4102.0 - Australian Social Trends, 2006

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LIFE EXPECTANCY

			Life expectancy at birth(b)			Healthy life expectancy at birth(c)

	Reference year	Infant mortality rate(a)(b)	Males	Females	Reference year	Males	Females
Country		rate	years	years		years	years

Australia	2005–2010	5	78.5	83.4	2002	70.9	74.3
Canada	2005–2010	5	78.2	83.1	2002	70.1	74.0
China	2005–2010	31	70.8	74.6	2002	63.1	65.2
France	2005–2010	4	76.6	83.5	2002	69.3	74.7
Greece	2005–2010	6	76.1	81.3	2002	69.1	72.9
Hong Kong (SAR of China)	2005–2010	4	79.3	85.1	. .	n.a.	n.a.
Indonesia	2005–2010	34	67.0	70.5	2002	57.4	58.9
Italy	2005–2010	5	77.5	83.6	2002	70.7	74.7
Japan	2005–2010	3	79.1	86.4	2002	72.3	77.7
Korea (Republic of)	2005–2010	4	74.5	81.9	2002	64.8	70.8
Malaysia	2005–2010	9	71.9	76.5	2002	61.6	64.8
New Zealand	2005–2010	5	77.7	82.0	2002	69.5	72.2
Papua New Guinea	2005–2010	64	56.6	57.8	2002	51.4	52.4
Singapore	2005–2010	3	77.6	81.3	2002	68.8	71.3
Sweden	2005–2010	3	78.6	83.0	2002	71.9	74.8
United Kingdom	2005–2010	5	76.7	81.2	2002	69.1	72.1
United States of America	2005–2010	7	75.2	80.6	2002	67.2	71.3
Viet Nam	2005–2010	26	69.9	73.9	2002	59.8	62.9

(a) Per 1,000 live births. (b) Medium variant projection. (c) Healthy life expectancy is based on life expectancy, but indicates an adjustment for time spent in poor health. This indicator measures the equivalent number of years in full health that a newborn child can expect to live based on current mortality rates and prevalence distribution of health states in the population. Source: Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, World Population Prospects: The 2004 Revision, last viewed 17 May 2006, <<http://esa.un.org/unpp/>>; The World Health Organization, The World Health Report 2004: Changing History, last viewed 23 May 2006, <http://www.who.int/whr/2004/annex/topic/annex4.xls>.

HEALTH SERVICES AND EXPENDITURE

	Reference year	Health expenditure as % of GDP	Health expenditure per capita(a)	Reference year	Doctors per 1,000 population	Reference year	Acute hospital beds per 1,000 population
Country		%	$US '000		no.		no.

Australia	2003	9.5	2.9	2003	2.5	2003	3.6
Canada	2003	9.9	3.0	2003	2.1	2003	3.2
China	2003	5.6	0.3	. .	n.a.	. .	n.a.
France	2003	10.1	2.9	2003	3.4	2003	3.8
Greece	2003	9.9	2.0	2003	4.4	. .	n.a.
Hong Kong (SAR of China)	. .	n.a.	n.a.	. .	n.a.	. .	n.a.
Indonesia	2003	3.1	0.1	. .	n.a.	. .	n.a.
Italy	2003	8.4	2.3	2003	4.1	2003	3.9
Japan	2003	7.9	2.2	2003	2.0	2003	8.5
Korea (Republic of)	2003	5.6	1.1	2003	1.6	2003	5.9
Malaysia	2003	3.8	0.4	. .	n.a.	. .	n.a.
New Zealand	2003	8.1	1.9	2003	2.2	. .	n.a.
Papua New Guinea	2003	3.4	0.1	. .	n.a.	. .	n.a.
Singapore	2003	4.5	1.2	. .	n.a.	. .	n.a.
Sweden	2003	9.4	2.7	2003	3.3	2003	2.4
United Kingdom	2003	8.0	2.4	2003	2.2	2003	3.7
United States of America	2003	15.2	5.7	2003	2.3	2003	2.8
Viet Nam	2003	5.4	0.2	. .	n.a.	. .	n.a.

(a) The per capita values are presented in international dollar estimates (using US dollars), derived by dividing each country's health expenditure by an estimate of its purchasing power parity (PPP) compared with US dollars, i.e. a rate or measure that minimises the consequences of differences in price levels existing between countries. Source: The World Health Organisation 2006, The World Health Report 2006: Working together for health, last viewed 17 May 2006, <www.who.int/whr/2006/annex/06_annex2_en.pdf>, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2004, OECD Health Data 2004: A comparative analysis of 30 countries, last viewed 23 May 2006, <http://ocde.p4.siteinternet.com/publications/doifiles/012005061T002.xls>.