This month: Life expectancy, road vehicle statistics, Treasury update (2022) and National Bowel Cancer Month.

Forthcoming releases

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Recent reports

Life Tables, 2019 to 2021 (ABS)

According to the report:

• Life expectancy at birth was 81.3 years for males and 85.4 years for females in 2019–2021.
• Over the past decade, life expectancy increased by 1.6 years for males and 1.2 years for females.
• In 1991 life expectancy at birth was 74.4 years for males and 80.3 years for females, a gap of 5.9 years. The gap has now narrowed, falling to 4.1 years in 2019–2021.
• The Australian Capital Territory had the highest male (82.7 years) and female (86.3 years) life expectancy of the states and territories.
• Based on United Nations estimates, Australia has the third highest life expectancy in the world (84.32). Monaco (86.54) and Japan (84.69) have higher life expectancies than Australia.

Table 1: Life expectancy at birth by state and territory of usual residence

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Life tables 2019 - 2021

Motor Vehicles, 2022 (Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics)

• There were 20.7 million registered motor vehicles as at 31 January 2022, an increase of approximately 2% between January 2021 and January 2022.
• Toyota remained the largest passenger vehicle make for the 17th consecutive year, with 3.0 million registrations.
• The average age of vehicles across Australia increased from 10.8 years in 2021 to 11.0 years in 2022.
• Hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) numbered approximately 277,000 as at 31 January 2022, an increase of around 35% over 2021. There were approximately 40,000 registered  battery electric vehicles (BEV) as at 31 January 2022, an increase of approximately 100% over 2021, including 34,200 passenger cars, an increase of 118% over 2021. 
  • Tesla is the most popular electric vehicle with approximately 22,260 vehicles on register as at 31 January 2022, up from 10,125 vehicles on 31 January 2021.
  • Hyundai is the second largest electric vehicle make, with approximately 2,750 registered vehicles as at 31 January 2022.

Treasury Round Up 2022

• Understanding productivity in Australia and the global slowdown
• Competition in Australia and its impact on productivity growth
• How dispersed are new technologies in the Australian job market?
• Why the real wages of graduates with bachelor’s degrees have fallen
• Children and the gender earnings gap

Parliamentary Budget Office

• Trend in personal income tax
• Fuel taxation in Australia (Budget explainer)

Data sourced from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, National Bowel Cancer Screening Program monitoring report 2022; Australian Bureau of Statistics, Causes of Death, 2021; Cancer Australia, Bowel Cancer; Image, National Cancer Institute/Unsplash.com

Interested in finding out what the latest statistics are telling us about the Australian economy and population? Each month the Parliamentary Library publishes a Flag Post article listing new reports on a wide variety of topics. The list includes important upcoming ABS releases and other research organisations and government departments.