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The population of Australia is estimated to be 27,589,600 as of 30 December 2024. [11] It is the 54th [12] most populous country in the world and the most populous Oceanian country. Its population is concentrated mainly in urban areas, particularly on the Eastern, South Eastern and Southern seaboards, and is expected to exceed 30 million by ...
This is a list of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), as published by the UNDP in its 2024 Human Development Report.According to the 2016 Report, "The IHDI can be interpreted as the level of human development when inequality is accounted for", whereas the Human Development Index itself, from which the IHDI is derived, is "an index of potential human development (or ...
In 2020, the Australian Council of Social Service released a report stating that relative poverty was growing in Australia, with an estimated 3.2 million people, or 13.6% of the population, living below the internationally accepted relative poverty threshold of 50% of a country's median income. The report also estimated that 774,000 children ...
The Bureau of Statistics' population clock ticks over to estimate Australia's population has reached 27 million. [ 59 ] Victoria's worst beach drowning event in twenty years occurs near Forrest Caves on Phillip Island when a total of four people from Melbourne's Indian community drown at an unpatrolled beach.
Australia: Australia and New Zealand: High income 34.3 2018 34.33 2018 Austria: Western Europe: High income 30.7 2021 30.70 2022 28.1 2021 Azerbaijan: Western Asia: Upper middle income 26.6 2005 26.55 2005 Burundi: Eastern Africa: Low income 37.5 2020 38.62 2014 Belgium: Western Europe: High income 26.6 2021 26.70 2022 25.6 2021
The population data is based on data from the UN. [4] The Wealth Gini coefficients from 2008 are based on a working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. [5] The Wealth Gini numbers for 2018, 2019, and 2021 come from the Global Wealth Databook by Credit Suisse. [6] [7] [8]
Growing from 398 to 406 prisoners per 100,000 male adult population. [17] Among the imprisoned population of Australia, there is a vast over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, accounting for just over a quarter (27%) of the Australian prisoner population. This is despite only accounting for 2% of the Australian ...
It is estimated that the population of Aboriginal peoples prior to the European colonisation of Australia (starting in 1788) was about 314,000. [35] It has also been estimated by ecologists that the land could have supported a population of a million people. By 1901, they had been reduced by two-thirds to 93,000.