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Table 3.1.2Age specific death rates, 2001–2005a, b, cMalesAge (years) Indigenous d Non-IndigenousFemalesRate ratio e Indigenous d Non-IndigenousRate ratio e0 f 15.0 4.8 3.1 10.4 4.1 2.51–4 74.1 29.2 2.5 70.5 20.3 3.55–14 29.8 13.5 2.2 23.0 9.7 2.415–24 207.7 76.6 2.7 96.0 28.6 3.425–34 416.3 106.6 3.9 185.2 39.8 4.735–44 823.6 141.3 5.8 469.0 77.4 6.145–54 1393.5 286.2 4.9 850.8 173.5 4.955–64 2543.9 711.3 3.6 1723.2 410.1 4.265 yearsand over6270.0 4325.5 1.4 4956.9 3690.6 1.3a Data for Queensland, WA, SA and the NT combined. b Deaths per 100 000 population except age zero.c Data are subject to a degree of uncertainty and apparent differences in mortality estimates betweenjurisdictions may not be statistically significant. d Indigenous rates are based on observed Indigenous deathsand are, therefore, likely to be underestimated. e Indigenous rate divided by the non-Indigenous rate. f Infantdeaths per 1000 live births.Source: ABS (2006) Deaths Australia 2005.• In 2005, age specific death rates (deaths per 100 000 population) were higher forIndigenous than non-Indigenous people for all age groups (table 3.1.2).• For all age groups below 65 years, the age-specific death rates for Indigenouspeople were at least twice the rate for non-Indigenous people.• The greatest differences were for those aged between 35 and 54, where the rateswere about five to six times those for non-Indigenous people.An independent examination of mortality for the NT only, over a long period(1967–2000), reported that Indigenous all-cause mortality rates in the NT declinedoverall and for all age groups. Declines were greater for females than males, andgreater in younger and older age groups than in the early and middle adult years(25–64 years). The declines in Indigenous mortality, however, ‘did not keep pacewith the relative decline for the total Australian population. NT Indigenousmortality declined for communicable, maternal and nutritional conditions and injurybut did not decline for non-communicable diseases’ (Condon et al. 2004).HEADLINEINDICATORS3.7