{"id":7407,"date":"2024-11-08T01:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T06:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=7407"},"modified":"2024-11-10T22:23:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T03:23:42","slug":"a-spike-in-covid-deaths-has-driven-a-decline-in-australian-life-expectancy-for-the-second-year-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/a-spike-in-covid-deaths-has-driven-a-decline-in-australian-life-expectancy-for-the-second-year-running\/","title":{"rendered":"A spike in COVID deaths has driven a decline in Australian life expectancy for the second year running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian life expectancy has gone backwards for the second year straight after a surge in COVID-19 deaths in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>An Australian girl born today is expected to live to 85.1 years, and a boy to 81.1 years.<\/p>\n<p>Australians still have the fourth-highest life expectancy in the world after Japanese, Swiss and Koreans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian life expectancy has gone backwards for the second year straight after a surge in COVID-19 deaths in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>An Australian girl born today is expected to live to 85.1 years, and a boy to 81.1 years.<\/p>\n<p>Australians still have the fourth-highest life expectancy in the world after Japanese, Swiss and Koreans.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/a-spike-in-covid-deaths-has-driven-a-decline-in-australian-life-expectancy-for-the-second-year-running\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A spike in COVID deaths has driven a decline in Australian life expectancy for the second year running<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[407,18,74,8,14],"class_list":["post-7407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-australia","tag-covid-19","tag-life-expectancy","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7409,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7407\/revisions\/7409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}