The latest National and State Population Growth dataset from the ABS shows that, at the end of March 2024, Australia’s population stood at 27,122,411 people. This represents an increase of 615,254 people in a year (2.32%) and 164,635 in a quarter. While still prodigious growth, it has pulled back a bit from the record territory seen in…
Which suburb is Australia’s most populous? A recent question from one of our Local Government clients prompted this piece on our most populated suburbs and the pitfalls of looking at numbers without context. Australia seems to have an obsession with “big things”. You know, the Big Banana in Coffs Harbour, the Big Merino Sheep in…
The new figures for the Australian and state population in December 2023 are out and make for interesting reading. The population stood at 26,966,789 people on 31 December 2023. This was an increase of 651,200 people over the calendar year 2023. That’s the highest calendar-year growth ever recorded in numerical terms. In percentage terms it…
The ABS has just released population estimates by country of birth for the year 2023. Normally we only get an update on this from the Census (every 5 years) but in recent years the ABS has started publishing Estimated Resident Population by country of birth. Australia remains a nation of migrants, with the latest figures showing…
The 2022-23 population update figures (Estimated Resident Population) have just been released by the ABS. This happens around the end of March every year but is particularly eagerly awaited this year, as we already knew from the state and national ERP released just before Christmas, that in the year to June, Australia piled on an…
The ABS has just released data on the number of babies born in Australia in 2022, and the associated fertility rate. The 2022 calendar year saw 300,684 births registered Australia-wide, which was a decline of just over 9,000 from 2021, and about 15,000 below the peak recorded in 2018 of 315,147 – the largest number…
