Australia's population set to officially hit 24 million on Tuesday at 12:51am

[gary]

In an article in today's Sydney Morning Herald (http://www.smh.com.au/national/australias-population-hits-24-million-faster-than-expected-20160211-gms2pe.html), Matt Wade reports that
Australia's population is set to hit 24 million this coming Tuesday.



Australia will reach the milestone 17 years earlier than had been predicted by demographers back in late 1999.



I can still clearly remember at school in the late 1960's when we were taught
the population of Australia is 12 million, half of what it is today.

Article here -
http://www.smh.com.au/national/australias-population-hits-24-million-faster-than-expected-20160211-gms2pe.html

[Merlin66]

like the old joke in the UK re. population growth....
"In (the UK) Australia a woman gives birth to a child every 91 seconds.........and we've got to find her...and STOP her!!"

[Slawomir]

I think also the world's population has more than doubled since the 1960's...quite scary really...

[UniPol]

When I was born in 1950, the population was 8,076,000, around a third of what it is now. Needless to say I've seen a few changes since then :eyepop:

[barx1963]

Interesting that back in the 1880s, Australia population growth was so rapid that it was predicted by the Vic government statistician that by 1981 the population would be over 90 million and would be larger than the US!
But then the White Australia policy kicked in, we went all protectionist and here we are.

Malcolm

[mr bruess]

Didn't Labor politician say Arthur caldwell say Populate or Perish!

[bobson]

About 45 years ago when I was in Primary School I learned that India had 800 million people. Now India has 1.252 billion! Now that's scary increase of 450 million people in 45 years!
That's about combined population of today's Russia 143.5 million and USA 316.5 million together in less than 45 years just from India.

China in other hand had 1.3 billion then and about 1.357 now thanks to one child policy. One child policy ended in 2015.

[astronobob]

Add another one - 1st grandson due in 3-4 weeks (y)