Population and Migration: Understanding the Numbers

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This paper was released on 9 December 2010.

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Preliminaries (PDF - 238 Kb)
Cover, Copyright, Foreword, Contents and Abbreviations
Key points (PDF - 131 Kb)
Chapter 1 Introduction (PDF - 114 Kb)
Chapter 2 Population growth and its components (PDF - 208 Kb)
Chapter 3 Fertility and mortality (PDF - 204 Kb)
3.1 Recent trends in fertility
3.2 Recent trends in mortality and life expectancy
3.3 Age-sex structure — implications for natural increase
Chapter 4 Overseas migration: drivers and trends (PDF - 263 Kb)
4.1 What determines migration levels?
4.2 An overview of major recent migration trends
4.3 Characteristics of Australian emigrants
Chapter 5 Overseas migration: temporary and humanitarian components (PDF - 263 Kb)
5.1 Temporary migration
5.2 The Humanitarian Program
Chapter 6 Geography of population growth (PDF - 203 Kb)
6.1 Population growth at a regional level
6.2 Population growth in the cities
Chapter 7 Future population growth (PDF - 231 Kb)
7.1 Our future population — the role of 'projections'
7.2 Future population growth and ageing
Chapter 8 Potential impacts of migration and population growth (PDF - 198 Kb)
References (PDF - 159 Kb)

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