The statistic shows the ten largest cities in Australia in 2021. In 2021, around 5.26 million people lived in Sydney and the surrounding area, making it the most populous city in Australia.

Australia Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data was reported at 22.673 % in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 22.893 % for 2022. Australia Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data is updated yearly, averaging 24.973 % from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2023, with 64 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 27.701 % in 1971 and a record low of 22.181 % in 2013. Australia Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Population in largest city is the percentage of a country's urban population living in that country's largest metropolitan area.;United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects.;Weighted average;

Australia Population in Largest City data was reported at 5,235,407.000 Person in 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 5,150,766.000 Person for 2022. Australia Population in Largest City data is updated yearly, averaging 3,691,137.500 Person from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2023, with 64 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 5,235,407.000 Person in 2023 and a record low of 2,134,673.000 Person in 1960. Australia Population in Largest City data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Population in largest city is the urban population living in the country's largest metropolitan area.;United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects.;;

The statistic shows the total population of Australia from 1980 to 2021, with projections up until 2029. In 2021, Australia had a total population of about 25.77 million people. Population of Australia Australia is among the ten largest countries in the world, in terms of area size, although its total population is low in relation to this. Much of Australia’s interior remains uninhabited, as the majority of Australians live in coastal metropolises and cities. Most of the population is of European descent (predominantly British), although there is a growing share of the population with Asian heritage; only a small percentage belongs to the indigenous Aboriginal population. Australia's year-on-year population growth is fairly high compared to most other economically and demographically advanced nations, due to comparatively high rates of natural increase and immigration. Living standards Standard of living is fairly high in Australia, which can be seen when looking at the Human Development Index, which ranks countries by their level of human development and living standards, such as their unemployment rate, literacy rate, or life expectancy at birth. Life expectancy of Australia’s population is quite high in international comparison, for example, Australia is also among the leading countries when it comes to this key factor.

Economically speaking, Australia is also among the leading nations, with a steadily rising employment rate, an increasing gross domestic product (GDP) with a steady growth rate, and a relatively stable share in the global GDP.

In financial year 2019, Sydney accounted for the largest share of GDP of any other city or region in Australia, with a value estimated to be over 461 billion U.S. dollars. Australia's second largest city, Melbourne, also contributed the second largest share of GDP.

In 2023, approximately 988,943 people lived in Stockholm, making it not only the capital, but also the biggest city in Sweden. The second biggest city, Gothenburg (Göteborg) had about half as many inhabitants, with about 596,840 people. Move to the citySweden is a country with a very high urbanization rate, the likes of which is usually only seen in countries with large uninhabitable areas, such as Australia, or in nations with very little rural landscape and agrarian structures, like Cuba. So why do so few Swedes live in rural areas, even though based on total area, the country is one of the largest in Europe? The total population figures are the answer to this question, as Sweden has only about 10.3 million inhabitants as of 2018 – that’s only 25 inhabitants per square kilometer. Rural exodus or just par for the course?It is no mystery why most Swedes flock to the cities: Jobs, of course. Over 65 percent of Sweden’s gross domestic product is generated by the services sector, and agriculture only contributes about one percent to the GDP. Employment mirrors this, with 80 percent of the workforce being deployed in services, namely in foreign trade, telecommunications, and manufacturing, among other industries.

With an increase of about 19.1 percent, Perth experienced the largest annual change in the value of residential property compared to other capital cities in Australia for the year ended December 2024. Melbourne witnessed the largest annual decrease in the value of residential property compared to other capitals.

Since the 1960s, Australia's urbanization rate has consistently been above 80 percent, and in 2023 it has reached its highest ever rate at 86.62 percent. Historically, Australia has been one of the most urbanized countries in the world, due to high rates of immigration since the 20th century, which were generally to coastal, urban areas. However, despite its high urbanization rate, Australia is among the largest countries in the world; therefore its population density is among the lowest in the world.

Australia Population Density: People per Square Km data was reported at 3.382 Person/sq km in 2022. This records an increase from the previous number of 3.339 Person/sq km for 2021. Australia Population Density: People per Square Km data is updated yearly, averaging 2.263 Person/sq km from Dec 1961 (Median) to 2022, with 62 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3.382 Person/sq km in 2022 and a record low of 1.365 Person/sq km in 1961. Australia Population Density: People per Square Km data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Population density is midyear population divided by land area in square kilometers. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship--except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of their country of origin. Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes.;Food and Agriculture Organization and World Bank population estimates.;Weighted average;

The Australian traffic management market, valued at $737.94 million in 2025, is projected to experience robust growth, driven by increasing urbanization, escalating traffic congestion in major cities like Sydney and Melbourne, and a rising demand for improved road safety and efficiency. Government initiatives focused on smart city development and the adoption of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) are key catalysts. The market's expansion is fueled by the deployment of advanced technologies such as adaptive traffic control systems, journey time management systems, and dynamic traffic management systems, which optimize traffic flow and reduce travel times. Furthermore, the shift towards cloud-based solutions offers scalability and cost-effectiveness, boosting market adoption. The hardware component currently dominates the market share, encompassing various devices like sensors, cameras, and communication infrastructure. However, the software and services segments are experiencing significant growth, driven by the increasing need for sophisticated traffic management algorithms and data analytics. While the market presents significant opportunities, challenges remain. High initial investment costs for deploying advanced systems, particularly in smaller cities and regional areas, might hinder growth. Data security and privacy concerns associated with the collection and analysis of traffic data also need careful consideration. The competitive landscape is characterized by a mix of established technology providers and specialized traffic management companies. Successful players are leveraging strategic partnerships, mergers, and acquisitions to expand their market reach and offer comprehensive solutions. The continued focus on research and development of innovative technologies, alongside government support and private sector investment, will be crucial in shaping the future trajectory of this dynamic market. The forecast period of 2025-2033 suggests a significant expansion, likely exceeding $1 billion by 2033, considering the 6.5% CAGR and ongoing infrastructure development in Australia.

This dataset contains time series for monthly precipitation over six sites (Blackheath, Braidwood, Darkes Forest, Goulburn, Lithgow and Moss Vale) in the Sydney Catchment Area (SCA) and monthly mean maximum and mean minimum temperature for three sites (Goulburn, Lithgow, and Moss Vale) in the SCA. This data was used in the study Attribution and Prediction of Precipitation and Temperature Trends within the Sydney Catchment Using Machine Learning. The data was originally from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology Climate Data Online (http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/index.shtml), but has been updated to have missing values (8% of data) filled using a moving average centred on the year for which the data is missing.

Below is the abstract for the paper:

Droughts in southeastern Australia can profoundly affect the water supply to Sydney, Australia's largest city. Increasing population, a warming climate, land surface changes, and expanded agricultural use increase water demand and reduce catchment runoff. Studying Sydney's water supply is necessary to manage water resources and lower the risk of severe water shortages. This study aims at understanding Sydney water supply by analysing precipitation and temperature trends across the catchment. A decreasing trend in annual precipitation was found across the Sydney catchment area. Annual precipitation also is significantly less variable, due to fewer years above the 80th percentile. These trends result from significant reductions in precipitation during spring and autumn, especially over the last 20 years. Wavelet analysis is applied to assess how the influence of climate drivers has changed over time. Attribute selection was carried out using linear regression and machine learning techniques including random forests and support vector regression. Drivers of annual precipitation included Niño3.4, SAM, DMI and measures of global warming such as the Tasman Sea Sea Surface temperature anomalies. The support vector regression model with a polynomial kernel achieved correlations of 0.921 and a skill score compared to climatology of 0.721. The linear regression model also performed well with a correlation of 0.815 and skill score of 0.567, highlighting the importance of considering both linear and non-linear methods when developing statistical models. Models were also developed on autumn and winter precipitation but performed worse than annual precipitation on prediction. For example, the best performing model on autumn precipitation, which accounts for approximately one quarter of annual precipitation, achieved an RMSE of 418.036 mm2 on the testing data while annual precipitation achieved an RMSE of 613.704 mm2. However, the seasonal models provided valuable insight into whether the season would be wet or dry compared to the climatology.

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SEVERE WIND GUST RISK FOR AUSTRALIAN CITIES - A NATIONAL RISK ASSESSMENT APPROACH Bob Cechet, Krishna Nadimpalli, Mark Edwards, Chitibabu Divi, Tina Yang, Augusto Sanabria, Craig Arthur, Nariman Habili, Neil Corby and Ingo Hartig Risk and Impact Analysis Group, Geospatial and Earth Monitoring Division, Geoscience Australia GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Email. bob.cechet@ga.gov.au

This presentation aims to provide an overview of the methodology and initial results from the analysis by Geoscience Australia of the risk that peak wind gusts pose to a number of Australian communities. It describes the progress made towards a national scale peak wind gust risk assessment for Australia. At present, these assessments cover residential development in both urban and adjacent rural regions of all Australian capital cities and some large rural centres. The current work program includes the consideration of the risk posed by severe wind to commercial and industrial structures and the assessment will be refined for both an improved understanding of Australian peak wind gusts and for climate change influences.

This wind risk research forms part of Geoscience Australia's assessments of the potential losses to Australian communities from a range of sudden impact natural hazards. These assessments aim to define the economic and social threat posed by these hazards through a combined study of natural hazard research methods and risk assessment models. Hazards being considered include earthquakes, cyclones, floods, landslides, severe winds, storm surge and tsunami.

The local wind effects on return period regional wind speeds were determined by assessing the effect of terrain at the structure height of interest, the shielding effect of up-wind buildings and the effect of topography. The estimation of the local wind speeds that would be equalled or exceeded within a given time period (commonly called return period wind speeds or return levels) were derived by combining the return period regional wind speeds with the local wind multipliers (terrain/height, shielding and topographic) for 8 cardinal directions on a 25 by 25 metre grid across each study region. The maximum wind value for all directions was sampled at each grid location and used to assess residential damage.

This presentation explains the methodology employed by Geoscience Australia to evaluate the risk associated with peak wind gusts in Australian cities, including a concerted attempt to define the associated uncertainty with the predictions. Limitations with the present methodology are also examined. In particular, these results are thought to be useful as a guide to relative wind risk in the Australian region; however the absolute values are likely to be an overestimate. The production and future utilisation of an event-based hazard dataset for all regions of the Australian continent is discussed and illustrated by using case studies.

The Australia Flexible Office Market Report is Segmented by Type (Private Offices, Co-Working Spaces, and Virtual Offices), End User (IT and Telecommunications, Media and Entertainment, Retail and Consumer Goods, and Other End Users), and City (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Canberra, and Rest of Australia). The Report Offers Market Size and Forecast for the Market in Value (USD Billion) for all the Above Segments.

Wind risk assessment forms part of Geoscience Australia's assessments of the potential losses to Australian communities from a range of sudden impact natural hazards. These assessments aim to define the economic and social threat posed by a range of rapid onset hazards through a combined study of natural hazard research methods and risk assessment models. This presentation provides an overview of the progress towards a national scale peak wind gust risk assessment for Australia. At present, these assessments cover residential development in both urban and adjacent rural regions of all Australian capital cities and some large rural centres. The assessment will be refined for both an improved understanding of Australian peak wind gusts and also for climate change influences on peak wind gusts.

The methodology employed to evaluate the risk associated with peak wind gusts in Australian cities is discussed, including a concerted attempt to better define regional hazard variability by utilising the results of a 1951-2000 period regional climate model downscaling exercise forced by NCEP reanalyses. The estimation of the regional return period wind speeds (or return levels) was derived by utilising a statistical model (extreme value distributions) to determine the regional-scale hazard. For an engineering application, the local wind effects on return period regional wind speeds were determined by assessing by combining the regional hazard with the local effect of terrain at the structure height of interest, the shielding effect of up-wind buildings and the effect of topography.

Limitations with the present methodology are also examined. In particular, these results are thought to be useful as a guide to relative risk in the Australian region; however the absolute values are likely to be a gross overestimate. The utilisation of an 'event-based' hazard dataset is discussed and illustrated by using case studies

In June 2022, it was estimated that around 7.3 percent of Australians were aged between 25 and 29, and the same applied to people aged between 30 and 34. All in all, about 55 percent of Australia’s population was aged 35 years or older as of June 2022. At the same time, the age distribution of the country also shows that the share of children under 14 years old was still higher than that of people over 65 years old. A breakdown of Australia’s population growth Australia is the sixth-largest country in the world, yet with a population of around 26 million inhabitants, it is only sparsely populated. Since the 1970s, the population growth of Australia has remained fairly constant. While there was a slight rise in the Australian death rate in 2022, the birth rate of the country decreased after a slight rise in the previous year. The fact that the birth rate is almost double the size of its death rate gives the country one of the highest natural population growth rates of any high-income country.
National distribution of the population Australia’s population is expected to surpass 28 million people by 2028. The majority of its inhabitants live in the major cities. The most populated states are New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland. Together, they account for over 75 percent of the population in Australia.

This dataset is part of the Geographical repository maintained by Opendatasoft. This dataset contains data for Local Government Areas in Australia.The ASGS Local Government Areas are an ABS approximation of gazetted local government boundaries as defined by each State and Territory Local Government Department. Local Government Areas cover incorporated areas of Australia. Incorporated areas are legally designated parts of a State or Territory over which incorporated local governing bodies have responsibility. The major areas of Australia not administered by incorporated bodies are the northern parts of South Australia, and all of the Australian Capital Territory and the Other Territories. These regions are identified as ‘Unincorporated’ in the ASGS Local Government Areas structure.More information on local governments can be found at the Australian Local Government Association website: http://www.alga.asn.au The suffix on Long Official Name Local Government Area indicates the Local Government Area status: Cities (C), Areas (A), Rural Cities (RC), Boroughs (B), Shires (S), Towns (T), Regional Councils (R), Municipalities/Municipal Councils (M), District Councils (DC), Regional Councils (RegC), Aboriginal Councils (AC).Processors and tools are using this data.EnhancementsAdd ISO 3166-3 codes.Simplify geometries to provide better performance across the services.

The Outlook of the Australian Commercial Property Market Report is Segmented by Type (office, Retail, Industrial and Logistics, Hospitality, and Other Types) and by Key Cities (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, and Perth). The Report Offers Market Sizes and Forecasts in Value (USD) for all the Above Segments.

With 109.9 men per one hundred women in the city, the greater Darwin area in Australia has the highest sex ratio. This is in stark contrast to the demographics of the other major cities in Australia which have more women than men. This is consistent with the fact that more than two thirds of all women between 25 and 64 participating in the workforce.Despite this fact, there is still some disparity between men and women in high level position as women are multiple times more likely to be sexually assaulted while men are much more likely to be victims of murder.The perpetrators of crimes are also much more likely to be men as there are

This web map contains layers that contain some of the more commonly used variables from the General Community Profile information from the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2021 census. Data is available for Country, Greater Capital City Statistical Area (GCCSA), Local Government Area (LGA), Statistical Area Level 1 (SA1) and 2 (SA2), and Suburb and Localities (SAL) boundaries.The General Community Profile contains a series of tables showing the characteristics of persons, families and dwellings in a selected geographic area. The data is based on place of usual residence (that is, where people usually live, rather than where they were counted on Census night). Community Profiles are excellent tools for researching, planning and analysing geographic areas for a number of social, economic and demographic characteristics.Download the data here.Data and Geography notes:View the Readme files located in the DataPacks and GeoPackages zip files.To access the 2021 DataPacks, visit https://www.abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/datapacksGlossary terms and definitions of classifications can be found in the 2021 Census DictionaryMore information about Census data products is available at https://www.abs.gov.au/census/guide-census-data/about-census-tools/datapacksDetailed geography information: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/standards/australian-statistical-geography-standard-asgs-edition-3/jul2021-jun2026/main-structure-and-greater-capital-city-statistical-areas: 2021 Statistical Area Level 1 (SA1), 2021 Statistical Area Level 2 (SA2), 2021 Greater Capital City Statistical Areas (GCCSA), 2021 Australia (AUS)https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/standards/australian-statistical-geography-standard-asgs-edition-3/jul2021-jun2026/non-abs-structures: 2021 Suburbs and Localities (SAL), 2021 Local Government Areas (LGA)Please note that there are data assumptions that should be considered when analysing the ABS Census data. These are detailed within the Census documents referenced above. These include:Registered Marital StatusIn December 2017, amendments to the Marriage Act 1961 came into effect enabling marriage equality for all couples. For 2021, registered marriages include all couples.Core Activity Need for AssistanceMeasures the number of people with a profound or severe core activity limitation. People with a profound or severe core activity limitation are those needing assistance in their day to day lives in one or more of the three core activity areas of self-care, mobility and communication because of a long-term health condition (lasting six months or more), a disability (lasting six months or more), or old age. Number of Motor VehiclesExcludes motorbikes, motor scooters and heavy vehicles.Please note that there are small random adjustments made to all cell values to protect the confidentiality of data. These adjustments may cause the sum of rows or columns to differ by small amounts from table totals.Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics