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This FACT indicates the number of days waited by Indigenous Australian patients for admissions from waiting lists for elective surgery in the 90th percentile. The 90th percentile means that 90 percent of the people admitted from waiting lists are admitted within and beyond 365 days. The other 10% are outliers and fall outside the range of the other 90 percent either above or below. The state/territory with the highest number of days waited in the 90th percentile is New South Wales at 335. The state/territory with the lowest number of days waited is Victoria at 182, followed closely by South Australia at 185.