Population

• Australia’s population was 25,694,393 people at 31 December 2020.
• The quarterly growth was 6,900 people (0.03%).
• The annual growth was 136,300 people (0.5%).
• 97.6% of annual growth was due to natural increase, and 2.4% was due to net overseas migration.

• People living in the capitals increased by 245,300 (1.4%).
• Capital city growth comprised overseas migration (162,800), natural increase (112,700) and internal migration (-30,200).
• Melbourne had the largest growth (80,100 people), Brisbane had the highest growth rate (1.9%).
• Regional Australia grew by 86,200 (1.1%).

For the year ending 30 June 2020:

• There were over 7.6 million migrants living in Australia
• 29.8% of Australia's population were born overseas
• Australia's population increased by 194,400 people due to net overseas migration
• 368,700 people moved interstate, a decrease of 8.7% from the previous year.

• 104,800 people moved interstate in the three months to the end of December 2020.
• 3,900 less people moved interstate compared with the December 2019 quarter.
• Capital cities had a net loss of 10,600 people from internal migration, compared with a net loss of 3,800 for the December 2019 quarter.

• There were 305,832 registered births in 2019, a decrease of 3.0% from 2018
• For all Australian women, the total fertility rate was 1.66 births per woman
• For Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, the total fertility rate was 2.32 births per woman

• Life expectancy at birth was 80.9 years for males and 85.0 years for females in 2017-19
• Victoria (81.8 years) had the highest male life expectancy
• Australian Capital Territory (85.6 years) had the highest female life expectancy

• There were 169,301 registered deaths in 2019, an increase of 10,808 since 2018
• The standardised death rate increased to 5.3 deaths, from 5.1 in 2018
• Infant deaths increased by 21 deaths to 1,009

• The median age for capital cities (36.0 years) was younger than the rest of Australia (41.2).
• The oldest capital was Hobart with a median age of 39.6 years, while Darwin was the youngest (34.3).
• Darwin was the only capital with more males than females.

• The population increased from 4 million in 1901 to 24 million in 2016.
• Australians living in urban areas increased from 60% in 1911 to 90%.
• Fertility fell from 3.1 births per woman in 1921 to 1.8.
• Life expectancy increased by 25 years since the early 1900s.

• The number of households is projected to increase from 9.2 million in 2016 to between 12.6 and 13.2 million in 2041.
• The number of families is projected to increase from 6.7 million to between 9.2 and 9.4 million. 
• Living with a partner is projected to remain the most common living arrangement. 

This product contains the digital boundaries for the Destination Zones (DZNs) used in the 2016 Census of Population and Housing