Centre for Population analysis of the National, state and territory population publication from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
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Australia’s population reached 27.5 million in March 2025. Population growth is slowing after the strong rebound that followed the COVID–19 pandemic. In the year leading up to March 2025, the population grew by 1.6 per cent. This is about the same as the average growth before the pandemic. Slower growth reflects slowing net overseas migration.
From March 2024 to March 2025, the population grew by 423,000 people. Of this growth:
- 107,000 came from natural increase (which means there were more births than deaths)
- 316,000 came from net overseas migration (which means more people came to live in Australia than left)
Even though natural increase was the highest since 2022, there are still fewer births and more deaths than before the pandemic. Net migration from overseas has gone down, but it is still higher than it was before the pandemic.
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