In 2023, population for Australia was 26.3 million persons. Over the last 50 years, population of Australia grew substantially from 13.7 million to 26.3 million persons rising at an increasing annual rate that reached a maximum of 2.08% in 2009 and then decreased to 0.97% in 2023.
The description is composed by our digital data assistant.Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship--except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of their country of origin. The values shown are midyear estimates.