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

Sex ratio at birth (male births per female births) in Australia was reported at 1.056 in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Australia - Sex ratio at birth (male births per female births) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

Australia Sex Ratio at Birth: Male Births per Female Births data was reported at 1.056 Ratio in 2023. This stayed constant from the previous number of 1.056 Ratio for 2022. Australia Sex Ratio at Birth: Male Births per Female Births data is updated yearly, averaging 1.056 Ratio from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2023, with 64 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.060 Ratio in 2017 and a record low of 1.048 Ratio in 1971. Australia Sex Ratio at Birth: Male Births per Female Births 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. Sex ratio at birth refers to male births per female births.;United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2024 Revision.;Weighted average;

Employment to Population Ratio: Not Married: Female: 20-24 Years data was reported at 76.878 % in Mar 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 76.011 % for Feb 2025. Employment to Population Ratio: Not Married: Female: 20-24 Years data is updated monthly, averaging 72.641 % from Feb 1978 (Median) to Mar 2025, with 566 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 80.331 % in Dec 2022 and a record low of 61.676 % in May 2020. Employment to Population Ratio: Not Married: Female: 20-24 Years data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Australian Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.G032: Employment to Population Ratio: by Age, Sex and Status.

Employment to Population Ratio: Married: Female: 55-64 Years data was reported at 64.289 % in Feb 2025. This records an increase from the previous number of 62.714 % for Jan 2025. Employment to Population Ratio: Married: Female: 55-64 Years data is updated monthly, averaging 36.901 % from Feb 1978 (Median) to Feb 2025, with 565 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 65.080 % in May 2024 and a record low of 17.158 % in Aug 1982. Employment to Population Ratio: Married: Female: 55-64 Years data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Australian Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.G032: Employment to Population Ratio: by Age, Sex and Status.

The estimated resident population (ERP) is the official measure of the Australian population. This dataset contains annual ERP by country of birth, age and sex at the Australia level. At the state/territory level it is available for Census years only.

Employment to Population Ratio: Male: 30-34 Years data was reported at 89.017 % in Mar 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 89.923 % for Feb 2025. Employment to Population Ratio: Male: 30-34 Years data is updated monthly, averaging 88.464 % from Feb 1978 (Median) to Mar 2025, with 566 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 94.043 % in Oct 1980 and a record low of 82.915 % in Jun 2020. Employment to Population Ratio: Male: 30-34 Years data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Australian Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.G032: Employment to Population Ratio: by Age, Sex and Status.

As of June 2024, about 13.69 million females and 13.5 million males lived in Australia. The population of both sexes has been increasing consistently with slightly more females than males.

Employment to Population Ratio: Married: 35-44 Years data was reported at 88.272 % in Mar 2025. This records a decrease from the previous number of 88.613 % for Feb 2025. Employment to Population Ratio: Married: 35-44 Years data is updated monthly, averaging 80.339 % from Feb 1978 (Median) to Mar 2025, with 566 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 89.337 % in Dec 2024 and a record low of 70.669 % in Jan 1984. Employment to Population Ratio: Married: 35-44 Years data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Australian Bureau of Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Australia – Table AU.G032: Employment to Population Ratio: by Age, Sex and Status.

School enrollment, primary (gross), gender parity index (GPI) in Australia was reported at 0.99804 % in 2020, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Australia - Ratio of female to male primary enrollment - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

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 statistic displays the number of permanent migrants Australia in 2016, by gender. In 2016, there were 1.13 million female permanent migrant in Australia, approximately hundred thousand more than male permanent migrants.

Theory predicts unified sex ratios for most organisms, yet biases may be engendered by selfish genetic elements such as endosymbionts that kill or feminize individuals with male genotypes. Although rare, feminization is established for Wolbachia-infected Eurema butterflies. This paradigm is presently confined to islands in the southern Japanese archipelago, where feminized phenotypes produce viable all-daughter broods. Here, we characterize sex bias for E. hecabe in continental Australia. Starting with 186 wild-caught females, we reared >6000 F1–F3 progeny in pedigree designs that incorporated selective antibiotic treatments. F1 generations expressed a consistent bias across 2 years and populations that was driven by an ~5% incidence of broods comprising greater than or equal to80% daughters. Females from biased lineages continued to overproduce daughters over two generations of outcrossing to wild males. Treatment with antibiotics of differential strength influenced sex ratio only in biased lineages by inducing an equivalent incomplete degree of son overproduction. Brood sex ratios were nevertheless highly variable within lineages and across generations. Intriguingly, the cytogenetic signature of female karyotype was uniformly absent, even among phenotypic females in unbiased lineages. Molecular evidence supported the existence of a single Wolbachia strain at high prevalence, yet this was not clearly linked to brood sex bias. In sum, we establish an inherited, experimentally reversible tendency for incomplete offspring bias. Key features of our findings clearly depart from the Japanese feminization paradigm and highlight the potential for more subtle degrees of sex distortion in arthropods.

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F1 Brood dataFamily-wise offspring sex ratio data for female Eurema hecabe sampled in North Queensland (2008 and 2009).

School enrollment, primary and secondary (gross), gender parity index (GPI) in Australia was reported at 0.97929 % in 2020, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Australia - Ratio of girls to boys in primary and secondary education - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

Gross enrolment ratio, primary and lower secondary, gender parity index (GPI) in Australia was reported at 0.96952 GPI in 2018, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Australia - Gross enrolment ratio, primary and lower secondary, gender parity index - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

Maternal characteristics of mothers giving birth in Australia (WA, NSW) by mother’s country of birth, 1994–2015.

This statistic presents the number of homeless people living in Australia from 2006 to 2016, by gender. According to the source, over 67 thousand men and approximately 49 thousand women in Australia were considered homeless on Census night in 2016.

This dataset presents the summary preliminary estimates of the resident population by age and sex as at 30 June 2018, this includes population by sex, median age by sex and percentage of the population within a certain age range. The data is aggregated to the 2018 edition of the Local Government Areas (LGA). Estimated resident population (ERP) is the official estimate of the Australian population, which links people to a place of usual residence within Australia. Usual residence within Australia refers to that address at which the person has lived or intends to live for six months or more in a given reference year. For the 30 June reference date, this refers to the calendar year around it. Estimates of the resident population are based on Census counts by place of usual residence (excluding short-term overseas visitors in Australia), with an allowance for Census net undercount, to which are added the estimated number of Australian residents temporarily overseas at the time of the Census. A person is regarded as a usual resident if they have been (or expected to be) residing in Australia for a period of 12 months or more over a 16-month period. This data is ABS data (catalogue number: 3235.0) available from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. For more information please visit the Explanatory Notes. AURIN has spatially enabled the data. Regions which contain unpublished data have been left blank in the dataset. Where regions have zero population, the relating ratio and percentage columns have been left blank.

This dataset presents the summary preliminary estimates of the resident population by age and sex as at 30 June 2019, this includes population by sex, median age by sex and percentage of the population within a certain age range. The data is aggregated to Statistical Areas Level 2 (SA2), according to the 2016 edition of the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS).

Estimated resident population (ERP) is the official estimate of the Australian population, which links people to a place of usual residence within Australia. Usual residence within Australia refers to that address at which the person has lived or intends to live for six months or more in a given reference year. For the 30 June reference date, this refers to the calendar year around it. Estimates of the resident population are based on Census counts by place of usual residence (excluding short-term overseas visitors in Australia), with an allowance for Census net undercount, to which are added the estimated number of Australian residents temporarily overseas at the time of the Census. A person is regarded as a usual resident if they have been (or expected to be) residing in Australia for a period of 12 months or more over a 16-month period.

This data is ABS data (catalogue number: 3235.0) available from the Australian Bureau of Statistics: https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/DetailsPage/3235.02019?OpenDocument.

For more information please visit the Explanatory Notes: https://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/3235.0Explanatory%20Notes12019?OpenDocument. * AURIN has spatially enabled the data. * Regions which contain unpublished data have been left blank in the dataset. * Where regions have zero population, the relating ratio and percentage columns have been left blank.

This dataset presents the summary preliminary estimates of the resident population by age and sex as at 30 June 2019, this includes population by sex, median age by sex and percentage of the …Show full descriptionThis dataset presents the summary preliminary estimates of the resident population by age and sex as at 30 June 2019, this includes population by sex, median age by sex and percentage of the population within a certain age range. The data is aggregated to the 2019 edition of the Local Government Areas (LGA). Estimated resident population (ERP) is the official estimate of the Australian population, which links people to a place of usual residence within Australia. Usual residence within Australia refers to that address at which the person has lived or intends to live for six months or more in a given reference year. For the 30 June reference date, this refers to the calendar year around it. Estimates of the resident population are based on Census counts by place of usual residence (excluding short-term overseas visitors in Australia), with an allowance for Census net undercount, to which are added the estimated number of Australian residents temporarily overseas at the time of the Census. A person is regarded as a usual resident if they have been (or expected to be) residing in Australia for a period of 12 months or more over a 16-month period. This data is ABS data (catalogue number: 3235.0) available from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. For more information please visit the Explanatory Notes. AURIN has spatially enabled the data. Regions which contain unpublished data have been left blank in the dataset. Where regions have zero population, the relating ratio and percentage columns have been left blank. Copyright attribution: Government of the Commonwealth of Australia - Australian Bureau of Statistics, (2018): ; accessed from AURIN on 12/16/2021. Licence type: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)