In 2023, about 7.1 percent of the population of the Australian state of Queensland was between 30 and 34 years old. In comparison, just 1.9 percent of the population was over the age of 85.

Queensland Top 100 Baby Names

As of December 2023, the proportion of the Australian population that lived in New South Wales amounted to 31.3 percent. The Northern Territory had the least number of residents in the country, with less than one percent of the population residing there.

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 presents the 2013 Edition of the Queensland Government population projections (Medium Series). These projections represent usual resident populations only and exclude visitors and temporary residents. These population projections have been prepared using the latest available information at the time of preparation. Complete accuracy of these projections should not be assumed. Variation above or below the figures provided is to be expected, because projections rely on the accuracy of the assumptions used, as well as the quality of data on which they are based. For more information, please refer to the Data Source. Please note the following assumptions: Queensland total fertility rate of 1.95 in 2011-2012, declining over a five year period to 1.90, then held constant thereafter. Average of low and high series life expectancy at birth. Net interstate migration of 15,000 persons per annum. Net overseas migration for Australia increasing to 250,000 by 2016-2017, then remaining constant thereafter.

As of June 2023, there were approximately 8.33 million residents in the New South Wales region in Australia. In comparison, there were around 252 thousand residents in the Northern Territory region.

Top 10 Baby Names by Region (ABS SA4 - Sub State categorisation) Transaction data is omitted due to the small cell counts

Yearly registered births – breakdown by Month

In the year ended December 2024, Brisbane was the most visited destination in Queensland, Australia by domestic day tourists, with over **** million visitors recorded that year. The Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast were the next most popular destinations among domestic visitors on day trips to Queensland.

Births that occurred by hospital name. Birth events of 5 or more per hospital location are displayed

Research data for a case study on the linkage disequilibrium estimation of effective population size of Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus commerson).

For further information and more detailed metadata please refer to the eResearch Archive: https://era.daf.qld.gov.au/3574/

The Social Cohesion Survey is a series of detailed surveys on social cohesion, immigration and population issues. A prime objective of the surveys is to further understanding of the social impact of Australia's increasingly diverse immigration program. The series of surveys forms part of the Scanlon Foundation Social Cohesion Research Program (SCRP) which commenced in 2007 under the direction of the Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements (MISGM) and the Australian Multicultural Foundation (AMF). A key element of the SCRP was the conduct of a landmark Australian Social Cohesion Survey in 2007. This is the second survey of the Social Cohesion Survey series, with the aims to: • Look at current attitudes towards social cohesion, and • Assess changes over time by comparing results obtained in 2009 to those obtained in 2007. The 2009 survey used a randomly sampled 2,000 respondents with the sample stratified geographically. A minimum of 200 interviews was undertaken in each Australian state / territory (i.e. 1,600 interviews) with the remaining 400 interviews allocated across the five most populous states (i.e. NSW, Victoria, Queensland, WA and SA) in proportion to the population in those states. The study covered a variety of topics, including economic conditions, political participation, socio-cultural attitudes, discrimination, and local communities.

In the year ended December 2024, Brisbane was the most visited destination in Queensland, Australia by domestic overnight tourists, with around *** million visitors recorded that year. The Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast were the next most popular destinations for domestic overnight visitors to Queensland.

From September 2021 to September 2022 in Queensland in Australia, the leading news brand was the Courier Mail with an audience of approximately *** million readers. The other most popular sources were the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian with an audience of **** and **** million readers respectively.

The Australian Twittersphere is a longitudinal collection of tweets from a population of Twitter accounts which explicitly self-identify as Australian or having connection to Australia. A publication detailing the method used to determine this population is forthcoming. This dataset contains the rules for inclusion in the Australian Twittersphere which are derived by the population method. These rules were developed by the QUT Digital Observatory team in 2021, and then used to determine the Twitter accounts which were included in the Australian Twittersphere up until the collection ceased in 2023.

To use these rules:

The rules file can be used with the twittersphere tool to filter a list of Twitter accounts down to those which match the rules and as such would have been suitable for inclusion in the Australian Twittersphere.

File specification:

aus_ts_rules_2021-09-16.csv is a CSV file encoded as UTF-8, with commas as field separators and each value enclosed in double quotation marks. There is a header row with column titles at the start, and each subsequent row (10,940 in total) represents a single rule in the ruleset.

Columns:

include: 1, -1, or blank


  1 indicates that this is a positive matching rule
  -1 indicates that this is a negative matching rule
  blank: does not affect results, but this rule is retained to indicate that it has already been assessed


discuss: Non-blank values indicate that this rule requires further discussion for finalisation
note: Any notes
field: Which field of the Twitter account this rule is to be applied to. Options: 'location', 'description', or 'realname'
first_token: Token to match on to apply the rule
second_token: Token to match on to apply the rule
third_token: Token to match on to apply the rule

Note that first, second, and third tokens together represent a sequence of up to three tokens appearing in the specified field. If the relevant sequence for the rule is only one or two tokens in length, third_token and possibly second_token will be empty.

At the 2021 Australian census, 278,043 people in New South Wales were Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. New South Wales is Australia’s most populated state, also housing Australia’s largest city, Sydney. By comparison, Australia’s second largest state, Victoria, was home to around 66 thousand Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

There are around 800,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia, which represents just over three percent of the Australian population. Indigenous people are often referred to as Australia's first people or the traditional custodians of the land in recognition of their ancestors inhabiting Australia more than 60,000 years ago. Australia's Indigenous peoples are represented by two distinct groups. Aboriginal people come from the Australian mainland. Torres Strait Islander people inhabit the group of Islands between the northern tip of Queensland and Papua New Guinea and represent less than 40,000 people.

Closing the gap

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples experience significantly poorer health and wellbeing outcomes when compared to their non-Indigenous Australian counterparts. The average life expectancy of Indigenous Australians is around eight years shorter than that of the non-Indigenous population. In education, Indigenous Australians are also underrepresented, but attendance rates are improving and in 2019, full-time Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students numbered well over 200,000 people.

We have investigated the impact of recognized biogeographic barriers on genetic differentiation of grey box (Eucalyptus moluccana), a common and widespread tree species of the family Myrtaceae in eastern Australian woodlands, and its previously proposed four subspecies moluccana, pedicellata, queenslandica and crassifolia. A range of phylogeographic analyses were conducted to examine the population genetic differentiation and subspecies genetic structure in E. moluccana in relation to biogeographic barriers. Slow evolving markers uncovering long term processes (chloroplast DNA) were used to generate a haplotype network and infer phylogeographic barriers. Additionally, fast evolving, hypervariable markers (microsatellites) were used to estimate demographic processes and genetic structure among five geographic regions (29 populations) across the entire distribution of E. moluccana. Morphological features of seedlings, such as leaf and stem traits were assessed to evaluate population clusters and test differentiation of the putative subspecies.

Haplotype network analysis revealed twenty chloroplast haplotypes with a main haplotype in a central position shared by individuals belonging to the regions containing the four putative subspecies. Microsatellite analysis detected genetic structure between Queensland (QLD) and New South Wales (NSW) populations consistent with the McPherson Range barrier, an east-west spur of the Great Dividing Range. Substructure was detected within QLD and NSW in line with other barriers in eastern Australia. The morphological analyses supported differentiation between QLD and NSW populations, with no difference within QLD, yet some differentiation within NSW populations.

Our molecular and morphological analyses provide evidence that several geographic barriers in eastern Australia, including the Burdekin Gap and the McPherson Range have contributed to the genetic structure of E. moluccana. Genetic differentiation among E. moluccana populations supports the recognition of some but not all the four previously proposed subspecies, with crassifolia being the most differentiated.

Abstract: This rainforest tree data package comprises stand structure data for rainforest trees at the O'Reilly's Connell Rainforest Plot, Lamington National Park (84 km south of Brisbane), Queensland for 2013. The O'Reilly's Plot consists of two 1.0 hectare plots spaced 600 m apart in sub-tropical rainforest, established in 1963. They have always been treated as a single unit for the purpose of analysis. Rainforest tree attributes recorded comprise the size (height or girth) of tagged and mapped, free-standing stems of shrub and tree species. Sampling has been undertaken at intervals of 1-6 years since 1963, and this data package is from the most recent recensus of the plot in July 2013. It essentially provides a snapshot of stand structure on the site. This data package forms part of the collection of vegetation data undertaken at plots situated in both Lamington National Park and Davies Creek initiated by Professor Joseph H. Connell (University of California, Santa Barbara) in 1963.

A synopsis of related data packages which have been collected as part of the Connell Rainforest Plot Network's full program is provided at https://doi.org/10.25911/5c13444388e1b.

Sampling method: The O'Reilly's Plot consists of two 1.0 hectare plots spaced 600 m apart, which have always been treated as a single unit for the purpose of analysis. This data package forms part of the collection of vegetation data undertaken at plots in Lamington National Park which were initiated by Professor Joseph H. Connell (University of California, Santa Barbara) in 1963. The same sampling methods are employed in a related data package focussing on tropical rainforest plots at Davies Creek, Dinden National Park (1.7 ha, 25 km south-west of Cairns). Sampling has been undertaken at intervals of 1-6 years.

Project abstract: This group conducts research in the rainforest investigating tree demographics.

Project funding: The National Science Foundation was the sole funder of this research between 1963 and 2003.

Between 2012 and 2018 this project was solely funded through the Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTERN) a facility within the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) and supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy.

As of August 22, 2022, over 80 percent of adults in Western Australia had been vaccinated with three doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. In comparison, less than 60 percent of Queensland population aged 16 years and over and received three doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane were the three most popular destinations for backpackers in Australia in 2020, with Sydney receiving around ******* visitors in the year ending March 2020. North Queensland, the Gold Coast, and North northern New South Wales were among the next most popular destinations.

Coronavirus and Australian tourism

The tourism sector was, inevitably, significantly affected by the coronavirus pandemic. At the end of the 2020 financial year, the industry recognized its first negative gross domestic product (GDP) growth year with a decline of over ** percent for the first time in several years. International tourism wasn’t closed off for the entire year, however, and although international visitor expenditure dropped from 2019, this was only by around ** billion Australian dollars.

Domestic and international travel intention

The overall intent of Australian consumers to travel dropped by around ** percent, compared to usual travel plans, as a result of the pandemic. Intention to travel overseas around halved compared to before the pandemic, whereas domestic travel within Australia and within the same state actually increased, suggesting more Aussies elected to opt for ‘staycations’.

Despite the changing travel landscape, spending by those who did travel internationally to Australia remained healthy despite COVID-19; spending rose slightly from 2019, suggesting that the industry will be able to recover to previous levels.