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.

Estimated resident population in a city by state and territory

Australia Population: Resident: Estimated: Female: State: Queensland data was reported at 2,831,196.000 Person in Sep 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of 2,818,622.000 Person for Jun 2024. Australia Population: Resident: Estimated: Female: State: Queensland data is updated quarterly, averaging 1,862,149.000 Person from Jun 1981 (Median) to Sep 2024, with 174 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2,831,196.000 Person in Sep 2024 and a record low of 1,166,761.000 Person in Jun 1981. Australia Population: Resident: Estimated: Female: State: Queensland 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.G002: Estimated Resident Population.

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.

Projected population data by five–year age group and sex, for the State of Queensland, Queensland statistical areas level 4 (SA4s), SA3s, SA2s, and local government areas.

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.

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.

• Queensland share increasing from 19.4% to 22.0% over the projection period.

Estimated resident population in an urban centre by state and territory

This dataset is subject to the terms and conditions set out within all applicable Sunshine Coast Council data license agreement(s) (incl. the Sunshine Coast Council Approval for SRC GIS Dataset Agreement, within which data structure, access, maintenance and custodianship is defined). This dataset is not to be used as a surrogate for survey-accurate information. Users of this dataset acknowledge feature locations are approximations only, and attributes reflect the data author's best understanding at the time of record generation and at subsequent update intervals. Attribute and positional accuracies vary within this dataset, and are subject to the methodology(ies) adopted for data capture and subsequent revision(as recorded against each feature). XY positional error values are not given. While every care is taken to ensure the accuracy of this product, neither the Sunshine Coast Council nor the State of Queensland makes any representations or warranties about its accuracy, reliability, completeness or suitability for any particular purpose and disclaims all responsibility and all liability (including without limitation, liability in negligence) for all expenses, losses, damages (including indirect or consequential damage) and costs that may occur as a result of the product being inaccurate or incomplete in any way or for any reason. Copyright Crown & Council Copyright Reserved.

This dataset is subject to the terms and conditions set out within all applicable Sunshine Coast Council data license agreement(s) (incl. the Sunshine Coast Council Approval for SRC GIS Dataset Agreement, within which data structure, access, maintenance and custodianship is defined). This dataset is not to be used as a surrogate for survey-accurate information. Users of this dataset acknowledge feature locations are approximations only, and attributes reflect the data author's best understanding at the time of record generation and at subsequent update intervals. Attribute and positional accuracies vary within this dataset, and are subject to the methodology(ies) adopted for data capture and subsequent revision(as recorded against each feature). XY positional error values are not given. While every care is taken to ensure the accuracy of this product, neither the Sunshine Coast Council nor the State of Queensland makes any representations or warranties about its accuracy, reliability, completeness or suitability for any particular purpose and disclaims all responsibility and all liability (including without limitation, liability in negligence) for all expenses, losses, damages (including indirect or consequential damage) and costs that may occur as a result of the product being inaccurate or incomplete in any way or for any reason. Copyright Crown & Council Copyright Reserved.

In the Australian state of Queensland, about 1.64 children were born per woman in the period of 2022-2023. This figure represents a slight increase compared to the previous year.

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 subject to the terms and conditions set out within all applicable Sunshine Coast Council data license agreement(s) (incl. the Sunshine Coast Council Approval for SRC GIS Dataset Agreement, within which data structure, access, maintenance and custodianship is defined). This dataset is not to be used as a surrogate for survey-accurate information. Users of this dataset acknowledge feature locations are approximations only, and attributes reflect the data author's best understanding at the time of record generation and at subsequent update intervals. Attribute and positional accuracies vary within this dataset, and are subject to the methodology(ies) adopted for data capture and subsequent revision(as recorded against each feature). XY positional error values are not given. While every care is taken to ensure the accuracy of this product, neither the Sunshine Coast Council nor the State of Queensland makes any representations or warranties about its accuracy, reliability, completeness or suitability for any particular purpose and disclaims all responsibility and all liability (including without limitation, liability in negligence) for all expenses, losses, damages (including indirect or consequential damage) and costs that may occur as a result of the product being inaccurate or incomplete in any way or for any reason. Copyright Crown & Council Copyright Reserved.

In 2016, the total population of Aboriginal people in New South Wales, Australia was 254,842. By comparison, the state with the highest number of Torres Strait Islander residents was Queensland with over 24,000 people. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are differentiated by the area of Australia their ancestors inhabited. Aboriginal people come from the Australian mainland and Tasmania, Torres Strait Islander people come from the string of islands between northern Queensland and Papua New Guinea.

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.

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

Adjusting for population levels, Queensland households generated an average of 556kg of waste per capita in 2016 2017, ranging from 390kg in the Cairns region to 680kg in Remote Queensland.

人口：居民：估计：女性：国家：昆士兰在09-01-2024达2,831,196.000人，相较于06-01-2024的2,818,622.000人有所增长。人口：居民：估计：女性：国家：昆士兰数据按季更新，06-01-1981至09-01-2024期间平均值为1,862,149.000人，共174份观测结果。该数据的历史最高值出现于09-01-2024，达2,831,196.000人，而历史最低值则出现于06-01-1981，为1,166,761.000人。CEIC提供的人口：居民：估计：女性：国家：昆士兰数据处于定期更新的状态，数据来源于Australian Bureau of Statistics，数据归类于全球数据库的澳大利亚 – Table AU.G002: Estimated Resident Population。

Estimated resident population by statistical area level 1 (SA1), Australia

In 2019, Queensland was the Australian state with the highest density of general practitioners with 125.4 GPs per 100,000 of the population. The Australian Capital Territory had the fewest number of GPs in relation to its population.