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Figure 5.1.2 Deaths from external causes and preventable diseases as aproportion of total population for children aged less than fiveyears, 2001–2005 a, b12IndigenousNon-IndigenousPer 10 000 population1086420Qld WA SA NTa Data are subject to a degree of uncertainty and apparent differences in life expectancy estimates betweenjurisdictions may not be statistically significant. b Calculations of rates for the Indigenous population are basedon ABS Experimental Projections, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians (low series, 2001 base).There are no comparable population data for the non-Indigenous population. Calculations of rates for thenon-Indigenous population are based on data derived by subtracting Indigenous population projections fromtotal population estimates and should be used with care.Source: ABS Causes of Deaths 2005, Cat. no. 3303.0 (unpublished); table 5A.1.4.• Between 2001–2005, the death rate from external causes and preventablediseases was five times as high for Indigenous children (between 5.7 and10.8 per 10 000 population) as the rate for non-Indigenous children (between 1.4and 2.5 per 10 000 population) in Queensland, WA, SA and the NT (the fourjurisdictions for which data were available) (figure 5.1.2).5.2 Infant mortalityBox 5.2.1Key messageIndigenous infant mortality rates in most of the states and territories for which data areavailable have improved in recent years. Nevertheless, mortality rates for Indigenousinfants in these jurisdictions remain two to three times as high as those for the totalpopulation of infants (figures 5.2.1 and 5.2.2).EARLY CHILDDEVELOPMENT ANDGROWTH5.11