Population Growth Steady Nationally, While Growth Slows In NSW And Vic But Accelerates In The Other States

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) recently published the March 2019 quarter demographic data. The data showed that at the end of the first quarter of 2019 the estimated residential population of the country was 25,287,394 persons, which was 0.5% higher over the quarter and 1.6% higher year-on-year.

The above graphs show the quarterly change in the national population and the components of the population growth along with a rolling four quarter trend. The charts show that the…