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A spike in COVID deaths has driven a decline in Australian life expectancy for the second year running

Australian life expectancy has gone backwards for the second year straight after a surge in COVID-19 deaths in 2022.

An Australian girl born today is expected to live to 85.1 years, and a boy to 81.1 years.

Australians still have the fourth-highest life expectancy in the world after Japanese, Swiss and Koreans.