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Eight charts on how Australia’s population is growing – and changing

  • Written by Liz Allen, Demographer, POLIS Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
Eight charts on how Australia’s population is growing – and changingJay Wennington/unsplash

People form the foundation of society, determining all manner of things from housing needs to economic wellbeing. And population characteristics can tell us much about how the inhabitants of a place have changed over time and where the population might be headed in the future.

Australia’s population now numbers around 27...

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