Population Trends In Australia

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According to Australian bureau of statistics (2016), there is about 669, 900 Aboriginal and Torres islander in Australia in the year 2011 and over 4 years (2015), there is an estimate of 729,048 increase in the population. About one third of the population where living in major cities, and almost one half lived in inner and outer regional areas, the remaining percent of the population lived in remote (16%) and very remote areas (45%) in Australia (Australia indigenous healthInfoNet, 2015).

“in 2011, 10% of the indigenous population identified as being of Torres strait islander origin (63, 700 people)”, according to Australian institute of Health and Welfare (2015). They have a very relatively younger age structure of about 21.8 years of the

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