Let’s look at the Baby Boomer generation — a large generation born in the 18 years following the end of World War 2 when the birth rate shot up to 3.5 children per woman. The medium Baby Boomer was born in the mid-50s, which means that they entered university – if they went to university…
When will we reach peak humanity? When will the largest number of people ever walk on planet Earth? And what does it actually mean for Australia? Firstly, the simple question is where do we get that population projection from? The most famous big-picture global population projection figures come from the United Nations population division. They…
Today the 7.6 million Millennials in Australia are the largest demographic force. As a generation, they outnumber Gen Z and Gen X by about a million people. They outnumber the large Baby-Boomer generation by about two million people now. There’s no other generation that will have such a huge impact on the 2020s as the…
In this article, I’m going to give a bit of career advice to your kids. Many of you are probably homeschooling, you are trying to ensure that your kids have the best possible future. What kind of subjects should you encourage your kids to focus on? Well, let’s think about what we know about the…
What would you do if you were tasked with spreading the 26.5 million people in Australia across the continent? In how many cities would you place them? How many regional settlements would you build? Where would you build wheat towns, where would you build cotton towns, and where would the dairy towns be? What kind…
