J. Cunningham

Placing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mortality in an international context

Objective : To assess whether the patterns of mortality observed among Indigenous Australians were seen in other countries or sub‐populations. Previous reports have indicated that the life expectancy of Indigenous Australians compares unfavourably with that of Indigenous groups in other developed countries, and is similar to that in some developing countries. However, in contrast to many developing countries, low life expectancy of Indigenous Australians is the result of relatively high and early adult mortality, rather than high infant mortality.