Australia Population Pyramid 1971

Australia
1971
Population: 12,997,964

Year

-5 -1   1971  +1 +5

Country

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Australia in 1971

As of 1971, Australia counted 12,997,964 inhabitants. A decade earlier, in 1961, the population was 10,500,443; it has grown by 23.8% since. With a median age of 27.7 years, Australia had a youth dependency ratio of 45.5 and an old-age dependency ratio of 13.2 per 100 people of working age. The broad-based, expansive shape of the pyramid points to high fertility and strong population growth.

Share of the population by age group, 1950–2100

Data source: United Nations World Population Prospects, 2024 revision (medium variant) — last updated July 2024.


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