- Australia’s population is on track to reach “somewhere in the high 30 millions” by the middle of the century with Sydney and Melbourne to top 8 million people each, a leading demographer will report to a national conference in Darwin this week.
- Charles Darwin University Northern Institute Principal Research Fellow Dr Tom Wilson said Sydney and Melbourne would be similar in population by mid-century, and about the size that London is today.
- The percentage of people living in metropolitan areas will increase from about 67 per cent today to about 73 per cent by mid-century,” Dr Wilson said.
- The Indigenous population grew by 19 per cent between 2011 and 2016. And we saw a net increase of about 80,000 people identifying as Indigenous in 2016 who didn’t identify in 2011.”
- “Assuming that continues, expected Australian Indigenous population to reach 1 million in four or five year’s time, and over 2 million by mid-century.”
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