According to the , Australia's population will reach 25 million people just after 11pm AEST on Tuesday 7 August 2018.
Australia has the 53rd largest population in the world, one place behind North Korea and ahead of Côte d’Ivoire, and its population accounts for 0.33 per cent of the global total.
But “by world standards, Australia has a relatively rapidly growing population,” Nick Parr, professor of demography at Macquarie University, told SBS News.
"This is quite unusual for a more developed country".
How has migration played a role?
Australia’s first federal immigration portfolio was created at the end of World War Two to encourage the migration of displaced people from wartorn Europe. More than 7.5 million people migrated to Australia between 1945 and 2013,
Australia’s population increased by . Sixty two per cent (240,000) of that number was due to net migration, the number of migrants who arrive minus the number who leave.
It was revealed last month Australia’s permanent migration levels - the number of people who come to Australia to live - when under the Howard government.
Source: SBS News
In 2016, 28 per cent of Australia's population (6.9 million) were born overseas. The most prevalent countries of origin were England (14 per cent), New Zealand (9 per cent) and China (8 per cent).
