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The gold rush transformed the Western Australian economy as gold production soared from 22,806 ounces in 1890 to 1,643,876 ounces in 1900 and this was matched by the fourfold increase in WA's population from 46,290 in 1890 to 184,124 reported in the 1901 census.
Western Australian population growth between 1880 and 1897. [1]In the latter part of the nineteenth century, discoveries of gold at a number of locations in Western Australia caused large influxes of prospectors from overseas and interstate, and classic gold rushes.
A decade later the Australian population had grown to 1,151,947 and the Victorian population had increased to 538,628; just under 47% of the Australian total and a seven-fold increase. In some small country towns where gold was found abundantly, the population could grow by over 1000% in a decade (e.g. Rutherglen had a population of about 2,000.
The population density exceeds 19,500 inhabitants per square kilometre in central Melbourne. [177] In 2021 Australia had 10% of the global permanent meadows and pastureland. [178] Forest cover is around 17% of Australia's total land area. [179] [180] Fitzroy Island, one of the 600 islands within the main archipelago of the Great Barrier Reef
Holtermann with 235 kg gold specimen from Hill End, NSW. New South Wales experienced the first gold rush in Australia, a period generally accepted to lie between 1851 and 1880. This period in the history of New South Wales resulted in a rapid growth in the population and significant boost to the economy of the colony of New South Wales
Australia mines about 57 tonnes of CO2 potential per person each year, about 10 times the global average”. [62] Mining has had a substantial environmental impact in some areas of Australia. Historically, the Victorian gold rush was the start of the economic growth of the country, leading to major increases in population.
Perth is Australia's fourth-most-populous city, having overtaken Adelaide in 1984. [99] In June 2023 there was an estimated resident population of 2,309,338 in the Greater Perth area, representing an increase of approximately 3.6% from the 2022 estimate of 2,228,020, the highest growth rate of Australia's capital cities. [1]
Canoona is a rural locality in the Livingstone Shire, Queensland, Australia. [2] It was the site of the first North Australian gold rush. [ 3 ] In the 2021 census , Canoona had a population of 90 people.