Long term population projections have a key role in informing policy, researchers say, responding to the government’s recently released population strategy.
“Our modelling indicates there is a 95 per cent chance that by mid-century Australia’s population will be between 29 and 43 million,” UQ’s Dr Tom Wilson said.
The Intergenerational Report’s projection of 36 million, dubbed a “big Australia” by former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, lies in the middle of this range.
“Our model tells us there is a 50 per cent chance that the nation’s population will be greater than 36 million by 2051, so we could have an ‘even bigger’ Australia,” he said.
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