Year 9: Australia's Population

Year 9: Australia's Population
Use the internet to answer these questions:
1. What is demography?
The study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations.

2. In what year did the Australian population reach 20 million? How quickly is the population growing?
Australia reached 20 million on 4 December 2003. It is growing 2% annually.

3. How many Aboriginal people are estimated to have lived in Australia before Europeans arrived?
There was about 315 000 Aboriginal people in Australia before Europeans arrived.

4. What the two main ways the population can grow? What percentage of the population growth in 2010 can be attributed to each way?
Two of the main ways the population can grow is by people from other countries moving to Australia and babies being born. (Fertility rate and Migration) 47% migration, 53% fertility

5. What is the total fertility rate for 2010?
The total fertility rate for 2010 was 1.9 children born per woman

6. What was the total fertility rate for Australia in 1935? How does this compare to other years? Why do you think that it compares this way?
The total fertility rate for Australia in 1935 was 77.2 per 100,000 women. It dropped because of the Great Depression.
7. What is the trend in the fertility rate for Australia since 1950?
From the 1950s, it decreases

8. What is the average size of a family in Australia? How does that compare to the US?
The average size of a family in Australia is 2.5 people. The average family size in the US is 3.14 people. This shows the average family size in the US is much greater than the family size in Australia. This explains also explains why the US has such a big population compared to Australia