Jennifer Lang
Life expectancy at birth in Australia dropped slightly (by around 0.1-0.2 years to 83.2 at birth), in the latest calculation from the ABS. That’s not surprising. Mostly due to Covid-19 deaths, mortality was worse in 2022 and 2023 than in the 2010s. The life expectancy number (despite its name) is...
Jennifer Lang
Recently, the Mortality Working Group of the Actuaries Institute (of which I’m a member) published our annual research paper on excess mortality in Australia and the world, covering the period 2020-2023. It’s a great summary, if you are interested in the topic. For this post, I’ve created a...
Jennifer Lang
Four years after starting my COVID reflections series, I’ve learned that: Looking for a bit of beauty every day is a great way of finding positives in the world Writing about what is happening the world is much better for my state of mind than doomscrolling A community of people reading and...