What is the population of Australia?
On 16 August 2007 at 08:38:12 (Canberra time), the resident population of Australia is projected to be: 21,039,038 This projection is based on the estimated resident population at 31 December 2006 and assumes growth since then of: one birth every 1 minute and 56 seconds, one death every 3 minutes and 59 seconds, a net gain of one international migrant every 3 minutes and 15 seconds leading to an overall total population increase of one person every 1 minutes and 45 seconds.
Hi, According to the CIA World Factbook (a great resource, by the way), there are roughly 20,600,856 people living in Australia. That may sound like a big number, but considering Australia is one of the biggest countries in the world (geographically speaking), the number is actually quite small. The United States, which is only about 15% larger than Australia, has a population of around 303,824,646.
What should the population of Australia be? What population can the unique Australian environment sustain? At the 1996 ANZAAS conference, prominent scientists argued that Australia’s current human population of about 15 million was already consuming nearly all available resources. They predicted an inevitable drop in living standards as an increasing population competed for decreasing resources. Personally, I think that less meat is an increase in living standards, but their message is clear. It is the same message that has been heard around the world for quite some time. The world is overpopulated and the environmental tensions are well and truly evident. They are evident in fisheries disputes and in genocides, in water disputes, in mass refugee movements. It’s easy in Australia to turn a blind eye to the symptoms of world overpopulation which are daily apparent. But they are there. Obviously, changes must be made, and a move to vegetarianism is one effective change Australia’s 26 mil
