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Map of the Northern Territory within Australia Darwin, the capital and largest city in the Northern Territory. The Northern Territory is a self-governing territory of Australia. It has a population of 232,605 as of the 2021 Australian census, [1] the most recent census for which data has been released, [2] and occupies an area of 1,347,791 ...
The Northern Territory has an Indigenous population of 61,115, which represents 26.3% of the total Northern Territory population. [65] There were 24,737 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander births registered in 2023, an increase of 349 babies from 2022. This represents 8.6% of all births registered in 2023.
The Northern Territory's population is the youngest in Australia and has the largest proportion (23.2%) under 15 years of age and the smallest proportion (5.7%) aged 65 and over. The median age of residents of the Northern Territory is 31 years, six years younger than the national median age.
Large-scale immigration from Africa to Australia is only a recent phenomenon, with Europe and Asia traditionally being the largest sources of migration to Australia. [3] Coins minted by the Tanzanian medieval kingdom of Kilwa Sultanate have been found on the Wessel Islands. They are the oldest foreign artefacts ever discovered in Australia. [4]
In the 2021 census, people who self-identified on the census form as being of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin totalled 812,728 out of a total of 25,422,788 Australians, equating to 3.2% of Australia's population [51] and an increase of 163,557 people, or 25.2%, since the previous census in 2016.
An excess of people entering a country is referred to as net immigration (e.g., 3.56 migrants/1,000 population). An excess of people leaving a country is referred to as net emigration (e.g., -9.26 migrants/1,000 population). The net migration rate indicates the contribution of migration to the overall level of population change.
In July 2005 the Productivity Commission launched a commissioned study entitled Economic Impacts of Migration and Population Growth, [78] and released an initial position paper on 17 January 2006 [79] which states that the increase of income per capita provided by higher migration (50 percent more than the base model) by the 2024–2025 ...
From these beginnings, by the 2020s, Aboriginal representation in the Federal Parliament had exceeded the proportion of Aboriginal people in the general population, and Australia had its first Aboriginal leader of a state or territory in 2016, when the Country Liberal Party's Adam Giles became Chief Minister of the Northern Territory. [223]