Melbourne is Australia’s most rapidly growing city, a title it wrested from Perth around 2013-14. Several of Australia’s big cities are growing well above the national average population growth rate.
SEVEN BILLION PEOPLE: As the global population passed the seven billion mark yesterday (give or take a few months – the data aren’t exact), Australia’s resident population will reach about 22.75 million…
Eight countries are projected to be behind 50% of the growth in population over the next three decades. Five are in Africa.
In general, an ageing population puts added pressure on the working-age population to be more productive – just to maintain total output – amid growing fiscal constraints.
Australia’s latest population projection figures have just come out. This is what they show about our demographics and where the country is heading in the future.
The Burrunan dolphin, Tursiops australis, has only recently been discovered but is already under threat due to its small and isolated populations. Our team of researchers from the Australian Marine Mammal…
Population crashes are dangerous and can be irreversible. But new research shows they are not always an evolutionary dead end.
There are plenty other good reasons to stabilise the global population.
In the 1960s and ’70s, his arguments also resonated on the left, including with the head of a powerful environmental group.
Understanding population density takes more than just arithmetic – that’s where mapping can help reveal which countries and cities are really getting cramped.
