The “news” from the Population Statement that Melbourne will soon overtake Sydney as Australia’s biggest city should not have shocked anyone because it has been on the cards for almost 15 years.

South Australia's annual population growth slumped to 0.5 per cent in 2020–21 as the pandemic hit overseas migration. But it would have dived further, had the state not seen a net increase in ...

Australia's population took 14 years to go from 20million to 25million, between 2004 and 2018. The national population is likely to have taken a decade to grow from 23million in 2013 to 27million ...

Melbourne has overtaken Sydney to become Australia’s largest city by population — thanks to a technicality.. The borders of the city, which is the capital of the state of Victoria, have been ...

After a sharp pandemic-induced exodus, Melbourne’s population is set to swell by an average of almost 2000 people a week to overtake Sydney as Australia’s largest city in nine years.

Australia’s cities are crowded — everyone agrees on it. We are about to add another 2 million people in the next four to seven years. Where will they live? In those same crowded cities, is the ...

The population size of some of Australia's most prestigious suburbs has dropped dramatically, with potential consequences for its biggest cities. Analysis by KPMG shows some inner-city suburbs are ...

Australia is currently home to about 24.1 million people. It has the highest rate of population growth of all the medium and large OECD countries, at a rate of about 1.7 per cent a year, and more ...

While Melbourne is not the most populated city, it had the largest growth in population between 2022-2023, of 167,500 people. An image of Melbourne from the International Space Station on October 9.

Melbourne has overtaken Sydney to become Australia’s largest city by population — thanks to a technicality.. The borders of the city, which is the capital of the state of Victoria, have been ...

Melbourne has overtaken Sydney to become Australia's most populous city for the first time in over 100 years due to a boundary change. Melbourne now has 18,700 more citizens than Sydney, according ...