Australia’s population is on track to reach “somewhere in the high 30 million” 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 years’ time, and over 2 million by mid-century.”
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