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The world's population is expected to peak at 10.3 billion in 2084 and then decline to 10.2 billion through the end of the century.
A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.
The global population has continued to increase since then, even though the birth rate has fallen, largely because the world ...
South Korea's population might plummet to 15% of its current level over the next 100 years due to an ongoing demographic ...
Australia has made progress in reducing socioeconomic inequalities in life expectancy since the late 2010s, according to new ...
Nearly half the population of Tuvalu has applied for visas to permanently relocate to Australia, as the low-lying Pacific island nation faces an existential catastrophe from rising sea levels.
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.
Western Australia may have grown by 89,000 residents over the past year – but without immigration, population growth would be at a crawl. And bringing in workers from overseas to fill roles in ...
The budget NOM forecast for 2024-25 is 260,000. The population debate in Australia flows on into broader current issues around housing supply and affordability, as well as productivity.
But, if for some reason average household size rose back to 2.8, we would need 1.2 million fewer dwellings to house our current population – no small difference.” ...
Australia’s average annual population growth rate is forecast to slow to 1.1 per cent over the coming 40 years. That’s down on the 1.4 per cent annual average over the past four decades.