Australians outlive their peers in five other high-income English-speaking countries by 1 to 4 years, with most of this advantage seen between ages 45 and 84. Lower death rates from drug and alcohol misuse, treatable cancers, and cardiovascular diseases are key factors.
Reviewed by Lily Ramsey, LLMAug 13 2024 An analysis of international longevity data published in the open-access journal BMJ Open finds that Australians outlive their peers in 5 high-income English-speaking countries, including the UK and the US, by 1 to 4 years.
Stalled declines in deaths from cardiovascular disease, along with a rising death toll from drug overdoses, mental illness, and neurological disease, are key contributory factors, they explain. And sizeable gaps in life expectancy between the richest and poorest, evident in most of these countries, have widened further in recent decades.
The World Health Organization Mortality Database for all 6 English-speaking countries provided detailed information on deaths by sex, age, and cause of death. However, the USA has been the worst performer in every year since 2001. In the most recent decade, the UK generally had the second lowest life expectancy.
While women in English-speaking countries never ranked among the top performers in female life expectancy between 1990 and 2019 in all 20 high-income countries, men - with the exception of the USA - typically have ranked in the top half over the past decade. Ischaemic heart disease, other circulatory diseases, cancers, respiratory diseases, mental illness, and neurological disease, mainly Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, are key contributors to life expectancy gaps in this age group.
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