In an article in today's Sydney Morning Herald, Matt Wade reports that
Australia's population is set to hit 24 million this coming Tuesday.
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Originally Posted by Matt Wade, Sydney Morning Herald
When the Bureau of Statistics' population clock reaches 24 million at 12.51am on Tuesday the nation will have added its latest million in record time – it is just 2 years, 9 months and 2 days since 23 million ticked over. During the second half of last century it took around four-and-a-half years to add each million people.
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Australia will reach the milestone 17 years earlier than had been predicted by demographers back in late 1999.
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Originally Posted by Matt Wade, Sydney Morning Herald
In late 1999 – when the population reached 19 million - the Bureau of Statistics projected the national population would reach 24 million in 2033. Trends at the time suggested the each new million people would be added in 7 to 9 years but instead Australia has been adding an extra million every 3-4 years.
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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/austr...11-gms2pe.html