1. What is demography?
The study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations.
2. In what year did the Australian population reach 20 million? How quickly is the population growing?
December 4, 2003. 2.1%
3. How many Aboriginal people are estimated to have lived in Australia before Europeans arrived?
315 000
4. What the two main ways the population can grow? What percentage of the population growth in 2010 can be attributed to each way?
It can grow by birth and by immigration, globalisations
5. What is the total fertility rate for 2010?
1370 measures of Australias progress, 2010
6. What was the total fertility rate for Australia in 1935? How does this compare to other years? Why do you think that it compares this way?
2.2 this one of the lowest as it was the time of the greatest depression
7. What is the trend in the fertility rate for Australia since 1950?
It rises out of the great depression and then slowly drops
8. What is the average size of a family in Australia? How does that compare to the US?
5 people in a house in Australia, 3.14 people in America