PHOTO: Kate McBride – The Australia Institute
The Australia Institute has recently released the results of a new study into average life expectancy for people living in the Far West and the results show a marked discrepancy between city and country dwellers – titled ‘The Unlucky Country – Life expectancy and health in regional and remote Australia’, some of the statistics are sobering to say the least.
According to the data, city people have a life expectancy of 84.5 years compared to Far West residents who are expected to average at 79.1 years, while potentially avoidable deaths are two and a half times more likely for western residents.
It also finds that a person living in Far West NSW is twice as likely to die prematurely – before the age of 75 – than someone in Sydney…