According to the ABS, Australia's population density stood at 3.1 people per square kilometre (sq km) in June last year. "Among the states and territories, the Australian Capital Territory had the ...

Australia, which has a population of over 20 million, and Russia, which has a population of around 144 million, both also ...

Earlier this year, Australia marked an historic milestone: in March the population ticked past 27 million. Births, deaths and migration help explain 615,300 new additions over the previous year.

The shift in Australia’s population distribution is primarily due to rates. “The Australian birth rate was high during the Baby Boomer years,” Prof McDonald said. “From the 1970s onwards ...

Victoria’s Surf Coast gained more than 6000 people from internal migration, or 7 per cent of its population. Western Australia’s Margaret River and NSW’s Port Macquarie region both ...

Australia has the 53rd largest population in the world, one place behind North Korea and ahead of Côte d’Ivoire, and its population accounts for 0.33 per cent of the global total.

UQ's Queensland Centre for Population Research (QCPR) demographers have developed a new generation population forecasting model that incorporates uncertainty about the future. “Our modelling ...