The country’s population grew by 563,200 in the past 12 months as migrants, particularly international students, rushed back.
Australia’s population is growing by a record 2000 people a day, fuelled by the largest surge in migrants in history as international students rush back to complete their studies.
In a stark turnaround from the depths of COVID-19, when Australia suffered its first decline in population since World War I, the population swelled by 181,626, or 2018 people a day, through the first three months of this year. The bureau’s head of demography, Beidar Cho, said there had been a 103 per cent jump in the number of migrant arrivals, which reached 681,000 through the past 12 months.She said the low departures and large inflows represented a catch-up after the pandemic’s international border closure, with most of the increase due to students returning to complete their studies. The effect was likely to be short-lived as temporary students completed their courses and left.
There was a small lift in births through late 2021 and early last year but that baby boom has now ended. The number of births, at 301,200, was 3.4 per cent down on the previous 12-month period. “The old adage is that ‘population is power’. In other words, if population is increasing, it has scope to raise plenty of boats. That is, if the population is planned,” he said.
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