paulry

Unless my calculator is broken this means that Australia's annual population growth is about 394200. That's a lot.

roaringmouse

The recent election will turn that around - no one will want to come to a country run by Abbott.

Dreamy

Just under 2% growth? I don't know how that equates to other countries to be honest.

the troubadour

Australia's population growth is high by developed world status. A lot of this gain is through immigration.

Sadly infrastructure is failing badly to keep up with the increases over recent years.

Immigration has changed over the years with falling UK numbers in percentage terms and the financial year just passed in raw numbers.

the troubadour

Possibly, but no bad thing having a breather. All vert well storing up the property market but build the infrastructure first.

Smaller population countries tend to be happier anyway. Constant rapid growth will impact in the negative to us all at some stage. Already happening on the roads and in the hospitals.

moneypenny20

Do UK numbers have that much impact? I'd have thought Sub Continent/Asian countries would have higher numbers these days.

Amazulu

Sounds about right - 1m every 2-3 years is what I read recently

The more the merrier

the troubadour

UK numbers have declined but still in fourth position. Yes India is top providing over 40,000 immigrants last year followed by China and New Zealand. It's not the country of origin as a greater diversity is a good thing. Just the numbers have gone ahead of the infrastructure. Pleases landlords no doubt.

Beoz

Indians and Chinese don't rent. They buy

Bix

I wonder what percentage are taxi drivers?

Bix

Population growth; the biggest threat to the planet.

Watch it happening here

Hover over a country to see its stats.

paulry

Yeah, all the talk about climate change and nothing about population growth. Even the so called Greens are silent about it

Some interesting figures. Compare Australia with Somalia. +/- half our population but the same death rate as ours and twice our birth rate.

OzTennis

I wonder what % are taxi drivers with degrees?

Australia conducts a census every 5 years; UK every 10 years.

It is believed that the real population of the UK is far in excess of the official figure. eg Tesco claim from their copious records kept via Clubcard that the real figure is closer to 80 million.

Melbourne's population is rising by just under 80,000 p.a. on latest figures.

Interesting stats here:

http://www.immi.gov.au/media/fact-sheets/02key.htm

Migration program is making a smaller contribution to Australia's population latterly than in the past eg graph at bottom shows much higher levels in % terms in 70's than now.

UK now 3rd leading source, down 30% for latest year.

And so and so forth.

Bix

Would be interested to see from what descent the domestic increase has come from.

Will also be interesting to see whether the reduced baby bonus slows down the domestic rate.

Actually I wonder if the new government will scrap it.

OzTennis

I have a feeling that people of Asian and Middle Eastern extraction breed faster than WASPs!

They also breed faster in Qld, WA and ACT:

http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/[email protected]?OpenDocument