Australian Population Is Hitting 24 Million!22 Things You Should Know About It (Part 1)
19 Jan 2016 -
It is an absolute milestone for Australia’s population approaching 24 million in February 2016. Social researcher Mark McCrindle describes what life was like when the population was half this — and how we have changed in the 48 years since.
We will give in depth analysis as series reports.
Population
1. Overall Population Increase
Fact
It was 48 years ago when Australia hit 12 mil. and now it is to reach 24mil. in February. It’s nearly double the increase comparing with what happened in previous 48 years, which is 6.5mil. from 1920 to 1968.
Analysis
One of the obvious reason is the outstanding immigration policies attract immigrants from oversea, especially independent, business and sponsor immigrants from China.
2. Main Cities
Fact
More people live in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane today than lived in the whole nation in 1968.
Analysis
Large cities are always immigrants’ targeting cities as they have advantages over others. More employment opportunities, higher salary, advanced facilities and superiorities of urban planning and education.
3. More than one in three Australians (8.6 million) have seen the population of the nation doubled in their lifetime.
4. Regional Increase
Tasmania has only increased by one-third (36 percent) while the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory have increased more than two and a half times (252 per cent and 263 percent respectively).
5. 性别差异 Sex Difference
Fact
In 1968, there were 83,807 more males than females while today there are 121,292 more females than males.
Analysis
Australians are into a new era of males‘ short supply.
An Aussie Girl, whose Chinese name is “Jiang Nan”, recently married a Chinese and contributed to China- Australia relations.
6. Age Composition
Fact
Twenty-nine percent of the population in 1968 was aged 0-14 compared to under nineteen percent of the population today. However there are still one million more under 15's today than then.
Analysis
It is easy to conclude that, although population boosts, Australia is still a low-birth-rate country. And it is interesting to find out that the “infant formula selling legend” is created in such a low children rate country.
7. Aging of Population
Fact
In the time the population has doubled, the number of Australians aged over 65 has more than tripled from 8.4 per cent of the population (1,014,000) to today’s 15 percent of the population (3,569,556).
Analysis
This brings about the serious problem aging population.
8. Marriage Rate
Fact
The rate of marriages has dropped by over 40 per cent since 1968 from 8.8 per 1000 population to 5.2 today. However there are around 20,000 more marriages annually than the 106,000 seen in 1968.
Analysis
Not like most couples in China, Australians don’t have pressure from parents to get married.They prefer to pursue high quality life and freedom. This is the so called “LOHAS”.
9. Birth Rate
The total birth rate has decreased by a quarter since 1968, from an average of 2.34 births per woman to 1.8 today. However with a population twice as large there are far more births today, exceeding 300,000 annually compared to 240,906 in 1968.
10. Average lifetime
The death rate has dropped by almost 30 percent since 1968 and life expectancy has increased by 13.2 years for males and 10.9 years for females to now exceed 80 for males and 85 for females.