What's new in Statistics . . . December

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

Forthcoming releases

If you are interested in any of the forthcoming releases or datasets, please contact the Parliamentary Library to discuss in more detail.

  Statistical reports Release date
ABS Managed Funds, September 2022 1 Dec
ABS Private New Capital Expenditure and Expected Expenditure, September 2022 1 Dec
ABS Assets and Liabilities of Australian Securitisers, September 2022 1 Dec
AIHW Medicare-subsidised GP, Allied Health and Specialist Health Care Across Local Areas, 2021–22 1 Dec
ABS Lending Indicators, October 2022 2 Dec
ABS Retail Trade, October 2022 2 Dec
ABS Mineral and Petroleum Exploration, September 2022 5 Dec
ABS Business Indicators, September 2022 5 Dec
ABS Insights into Australian Smokers, 2021–22 (new issue) 5 Dec
ABS Government Finance Statistics, September 2022 6 Dec
ABS Labour Hire Workers, June 2022 (new issue) 6 Dec
ABS Monthly Household Spending Indicator, October 2022 6 Dec
ABS Total Value of Dwellings, September Quarter 2022 6 Dec
ABS Balance of Payments and International Investment Position, September 2022 6 Dec
AIHW Suicide & Self-Harm Monitoring Update: Veterans 6 Dec
ABS Building Approvals, October 2022 7 Dec
ABS Australian National Accounts: National Income, Expenditure and Product, September 2022 7 Dec
ABS Australian National Accounts: Tourism Satellite Account, 2021–22 8 Dec
ABS Weekly Payroll Jobs and Wages in Australia, week ending 12 November 2022 8 Dec
ABS International Trade in Goods and Services, October 2022 8 Dec
ABS Industrial Disputes, September 2022 8 Dec
AIHW Specialist Homelessness Services, 2021–22 8 Dec
ABS Overseas Arrivals and Departures, October 2022 13 Dec
ABS Monthly Business Turnover Indicator, October 2022 13 Dec
ABS Estimates of Industry Multifactor Productivity, 2021–22 13 Dec
AIHW Youth Detention Population in Australia, 2022 13 Dec
AIHW Australian Burden of Disease, 2022 13 Dec
ABS Working Arrangements, August 2022 14 Dec
ABS Characteristics of Employment, August 2022 14 Dec
ABS Labour Account, September 2022 14 Dec
ABS Employee Earnings, August 2022 14 Dec
ABS Trade Union Membership, August 2022 14 Dec
NCVER VET Student Outcomes, 2022 15 Dec
ABS Labour Force, November 2022 15 Dec
ABS National, State and Territory Population, June 2022 15 Dec
ABS Australian National Accounts: Finance and Wealth, September 2022 15 Dec
ABS Overseas Migration, 2021–22 16 Dec
ABS Australian Defence Industry Account (Experimental Estimates), 2021–22 16 Dec
ABS Counts of Australian Businesses, including Entries and Exits, June 2022 16 Dec
NCVER Historical Time-Series of Apprenticeships and Traineeships, 1963 to 2022 20 Dec
ABS Tourism Satellite Accounts, September 2022 21 Dec
ABS Labour Force (Detailed), November 2022 22 Dec

Note: Release dates may be subject to change without notice.

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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

States and Territories    2009-2011    2019-2021 Change over 10 years
Males Females Males Females Males Females
NSW 79.8 84.2 81.4 85.4 1.6 1.2
Vic. 80.3 84.4 81.7 85.7 1.4 1.3
Qld 79.5 84.1 80.9 85.1 1.4 1.0
SA 79.7 84.0 81.0 85.3 1.3 1.3
WA 80.1 84.6 81.7 85.9 1.6 1.3
Tas. 78.3 82.5 80.3 84.4 2.0 1.9
NT 74.9 80.5 76.3 81.0 1.4 0.5
ACT 81.0 84.8 82.7 86.3 1.7 1.5
Aust.(a) 79.7 84.2 81.3 85.4 1.6 1.2
(a) Includes Other Territories.

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

Parliamentary Budget Office

Bowel Cancer Month
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

 

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