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…
