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Demographics of Australia. The population of Australia is estimated to be 27,413,300 as of 19 September 2024. [10] It is the 54th [11] most populous country in the world and the most populous Oceanian country. Its population is concentrated mainly in urban areas, particularly on the Eastern, South Eastern and Southern seaboards, and is expected ...
The 2021 Census took place on 10 August 2021, and was conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). [1][2] It had a response rate of 96.1%, up from the 95.1% at the 2016 census. [3] The total population of the Commonwealth of Australia was counted as 25,422,788, an increase of 8.6 per cent or 2,020,896 people over the previous 2016 ...
Ageing of Australia. Australia has an ageing demographic. [1] The proportion of the Australian population aged 65 and over was 15% in 2017, a trend which is expected to continue to grow. [2] It is estimated that by 2057 older people will account for 22% of the Australian population which translates to 8.8 million people. [3]
About 58% of Australians aged from 25 to 64 have vocational or tertiary qualifications [419] and the tertiary graduation rate of 49% is the highest among OECD countries. 30.9% of Australia's population has attained a higher education qualification, which is among the highest percentages in the world. [420] [421] [422]
The Census in Australia, officially the Census of Population and Housing, is the national census in Australia that occurs every five years. [1] The census collects key demographic, social and economic data from all people in Australia on census night, including overseas visitors and residents of Australian external territories, only excluding foreign diplomats. [2]
Rates are the average annual number of births or deaths during a year per 1,000 persons; these are also known as crude birth or death rates. Column four is from the UN Population Division [3] and shows a projection for the average natural increase rate for the time period shown using the medium fertility variant. Blank cells in column four ...
List of countries by population (United Nations) This is a list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present. [2]
The current world population growth is approximately 1.09%. [7] People under 15 years of age made up over a quarter of the world population (25.18%), and people age 65 and over made up nearly ten percent (9.69%) in 2021. [7] The world population more than tripled during the 20th century from about 1.65 billion in 1900 to 5.97 billion in 1999.