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Excess or reduced body weight is regarded as an indicator of determining a person's health, with body volume measurement providing an extra dimension by calculating the distribution of body weight. Average adult human weight varies by continent, from about 60 kg (130 lb) in Asia and Africa to about 80 kg (180 lb) in North America, with men on ...
In a study published in 2015 by the US Journal of Economics and Human Biology, obesity is found to have the largest impact on men aged over 75, and women aged between 60 and 74. [13] In 2005, a study was conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics that compared the results of a 2004-05 survey with those conducted in the preceding 15 years.
In fact, recent research projected that the cancer death rate among men will rise by 93% by 2050, with lung cancer remaining the leading killer, due in part to the fact that men smoke more than women.
On average Australian males live to around 78 years of age, [2] with the life expectancy of an Indigenous Australian male in 2009 being around 67 years of age [3] and non indigenous men in remote areas living to around 70. [3] On average female mortality rates are lower than males across the entire age spectrum. [4]
[55] [56] [57] Birdsell found that the average adult male height of Aboriginal people in this region was significantly less than that of other Aboriginal Australian groups; however, it was still greater than the maximum height for classification as a pygmy people, so the term pygmy may be considered a misnomer. [58]
The average height of 19-year-old Dutch orphans in 1865 was 160 cm (5 ft 3 in). [78] From 1830 to 1857, the average height of a Dutch person decreased, even while Dutch real GNP per capita was growing at an average rate of more than 0.5% per year. The worst decline was in urban areas that in 1847, the urban height penalty was 2.5 cm (1.0 in).
Australian and foreign born population pyramid in 2021. In 2019, 30% of the Australian resident population, or 7,529,570 people, were born overseas. [80] Australia's population has quadrupled since the end of World War I, [81] much of this increase from immigration.