Australia has recorded its largest one-year increase in population as migrants return to Australia, but deaths connected to COVID-19 also surged.
Australia’s population swelled by a record 497,000 through 2022, driven by the nation’s single largest annual intake of migrants, even as COVID-19 infections lifted the number of deaths and weighed on natural growth., figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Thursday revealed a net 387,000 migrants made their way into the country last year.
The population grew by 1.9 per cent, its highest rate since 2008, with the nation’s population now at 26.3 million. The government has come under attack from the Coalition since the May budget revealed the nation is expecting 1.5 million net migrants to call Australia home over the next five years.But the government has rejected the claims, arguing much of the increase is due to a catch-up caused by the border closure. The budget confirmed the nation’s population will be 700,000 smaller by the end of the decade compared to what had been forecast by the Coalition in its 2019 pre-COVID budget.
Nationally, births fell by 4.6 per cent to 300,700 while deaths jumped by 11.1 per cent to a record 190,900. Through 2022, NSW added 138,000 residents, taking its population to 8.2 million. Victoria added a similar number with its population reaching 6.7 million while Queensland is now home to almost 5.4 million residents.
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