Australia's population reaching new milestone

Australia’s population is reaching 25 million people this week. It comes amid concerns population growth, which increased by 1.6 per cent last year, is putting pressure on infrastructure in some of Australia’s biggest cities.

A newborn baby. (Photo by Danny Lawson/PA Images via Getty Images) Source: Press Association

The most recent data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) assumes that on average, Australia's population increases by one person every 83 seconds.

According to the Bureau, Australia’s population grew by 1.6 per cent over 2017.

That's higher than the global population, which a United Nations report estimates grew by 1.1 per cent.

Professor Nick Parr, a Professor of Demography at Macquarie University, says Australia is experiencing relatively high population growth for a country of its kind.

 

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