Australia's demographics?

Question

i'm doing a report for history and i need to know why Australia's birth,death, and infant mortality rates are lower than the Untied States.

Thanks!

Answer 1

climate and polution

Answer 2

If you compared by similar ethnic, racial, and religious group there would be little difference.
The U.S. has assimilated people from places in the last few generations. Boat people from Vietnam, economic refugees from Haiti, political refugees from Nigeria, and migrants from Mexico will skew the statistics downward for a generation or two but eventually will become more healthy.
Native Americans live almost twenty years less than average but this impact is also diminishing.
Assimilation of different ethnics groups may also have some other short-term negative effects. More diseases and genetic conditions are spread more quickly through inter-marriage. Woman bearing children of partners with ethnic differences may be subject to some physical problems.
Twenty per cent of the U.S. population speak languages other than English at home. This has cultural advantages but does causes some health education problems.
BTW, don't blame a lack of "universal health care". U.S. hospitals do not turn away seriously sick or injured people. In fact the U.S. does not ration health care as strictly as many "universal health care" countries do.
Alcoholism, drug abuse, tobacco use, poor nutrition, and other lifestyle choices cause a large number of deaths in the U.S. and other countries. I do not know if this is comparable in Australia.

Answer 3

As an Australian I would say that its is because of the social welfare system that we have. are you talking about per capita or the actual numbers. We have a smaller population. If you didn't know there are only 20million people in Australia and the land mass is the same size as the USA.

Answer 4

As a librarian, I can tell you --the best place for these statistics is the CIA World Factbook or the World Almanac.