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Public health and Covid-19 in Australia

Healthcare in Australia

Healthcare in Australia is one of the most effective worldwide.

Probably the most important indicator that can be used to summarize the efficiency of all measures is general life expectancy. In other words, the theoretical age that a newborn child could potentially reach today. At the moment, this age in Australia is 81.2 years for men and 85.3 years for women. For comparison: worldwide life expectancy is about 10.9 years lower (men: 69.8 / women: 74.9 years).

A total of 5,555.37 USD per inhabitant is spent annually on health measures at state expense. This corresponds to approximately 10.2 percent of the gross domestic product. Internationally, this amount averages 1,103.03 USD (~ 9.8% of the respective GDP).


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Spread of COVID-19 in Australia

Since the beginning of the pandemic until May 28th, 2023, a total of 11,339,196 infected people and 20,721 deaths have been reported in Australia.

The total of 11,339,196 infected people currently represents 44.47 percent of the total population.

Current vaccination status

According to official WHO data, a total of 65.49 million vaccine doses have been administered as of March 24th, 2023. More recent data are not yet available to WHO. There are 22.23 million people who have received at least one vaccination (87.2 percent). The booster vaccination was received by 14.37 million people (56.4 percent).

21.65 million of these are considered fully vaccinated in Australia (= 84.9 percent).
This makes Australia one of the best-supplied countries in the world. The vaccination rate is higher in 29 countries.

Weight and size

MaleFemale
Body height179 cm165 cm
BMI27.726.8
Weight88.3 kg72.6 kg

Diseases

AustraliaØ worldwide
Diabetes *5.60%8.81%
Tuberculosis0.07‰1.34‰
HIV / Aids0.00%0.03%

* The number of people suffering from diabetes refers only to inhabitants aged between 20 and 79 years.


Child vaccinations

AustraliaØ worldwide
Measles93.0%81.7%
Hepatitis B0.10%0.08%
DTP *9.50%8.14%

* DTP is a combined basic vaccination against diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus, which should be given to children up to the age of 23 months.

In Australia, 13.6 percent of all over 15-year-olds are still smokers.


Medical supplies

Public health and Covid-19 in AustraliaThe medical care provided by doctors and hospitals in Australia is above average, but is not as good as the average within the EU. The country provides 3.8 hospital beds per 1,000 inhabitants. The global mean here is 2.9 beds. Within the EU, 4.6 beds are available for every 1,000 residents.

With about 92,200 physicians in Australia, there are about 3.59 doctors per 1000 inhabitants. Here again the comparison: worldwide this standard is 1.50 physicians per 1,000 inhabitants and in the EU is 3.57.

Through medical care, the mortality of major known diseases can be reduced to an above-average extent. For example, only about 9 percent of all people who suffer from cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases or chylomicron retention disease (CRD) currently die.

Sources

The above data correspond to the information from the World Health Organization, Global Health Workforce Statistics, UNICEF, State of the World's Children, Childinfo, Global Health Observatory Data Repository and OECD. The case numbers for the spread of the COVID-19 come from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).

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