The sun, sea and sands of Australia have long been attractive to Britons dreaming of a new life. Now there is another reason for people to call it home: Australians outlive their peers in English speaking countries by up to five years. While English-speaking high-income countries have much in common, they also have notable differences, including in their healthcare and welfare systems, levels of inequality, racial and ethnic compositions, and histories of immigration.
Researchers at Penn State University in the United States therefore wanted to know if there were any lifespan differences among Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK, and the USA, which represent some of the wealthiest economies in the world. They used national life tables from the World Health Organization Human Mortality Database between 1990 and 2019 for men and women in these countries, while detailed information on deaths by sex, age, and cause of death. Analysis of the data showed that Australia has been the best performer in life expectancy at birth since the early 1990s, leading its peer countries by 1.
26-3.95 years for women and by 0.97-4.
88 years for men in 2018. Read Next I regret moving to the French Riviera - it wasn't the paradise I thought Specifically, Australia has a 4 to 5 year life expectancy advantage over the USA and a 1 to 2.5 year advantage over Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, and the UK.
For most of the period between 1990 and 2019, Canada had the second highest life expectancy. M.