Urban population (% of total population) in Australia was reported at 86.75 % in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Australia - Urban population (% of total) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

Australia Urban Population Growth data was reported at 2.520 % in 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 1.418 % for 2022. Australia Urban Population Growth data is updated yearly, averaging 1.489 % from Dec 1961 (Median) to 2023, with 63 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3.572 % in 1971 and a record low of 0.281 % in 2021. Australia Urban Population Growth 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. Urban population refers to people living in urban areas as defined by national statistical offices. It is calculated using World Bank population estimates and urban ratios from the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects.;World Bank staff estimates based on the United Nations Population Division's World Urbanization Prospects: 2018 Revision.;Weighted average;

Urban population in Australia was reported at 23600172 in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Australia - Urban population - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

Australia Urban Population data was reported at 23,073,508.000 Person in 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 22,499,333.000 Person for 2022. Australia Urban Population data is updated yearly, averaging 14,833,869.500 Person from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2023, with 64 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 23,073,508.000 Person in 2023 and a record low of 8,378,309.000 Person in 1960. Australia 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. Urban population refers to people living in urban areas as defined by national statistical offices. It is calculated using World Bank population estimates and urban ratios from the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects. Aggregation of urban and rural population may not add up to total population because of different country coverages.;World Bank staff estimates based on the United Nations Population Division's World Urbanization Prospects: 2018 Revision.;Sum;

Australia Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data was reported at 22.768 % in 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of 22.673 % for 2023. Australia Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data is updated yearly, averaging 24.964 % from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2024, with 65 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;

Urban population growth (annual %) in Australia was reported at 2.5965 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Australia - Urban population growth (annual %) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on June of 2025.

Since the 1960s, Australia's urbanization rate has consistently been above 80 percent, and in 2024 it has reached its highest ever rate at 86.75 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.

The average for 2023 based on 13 countries was 49.33 percent. The highest value was in New Zealand: 86.99 percent and the lowest value was in Papua New Guinea: 13.72 percent. The indicator is available from 1960 to 2023. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

Australia Urban Population: % of Total Population data was reported at 86.617 % in 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 86.488 % for 2022. Australia Urban Population: % of Total Population data is updated yearly, averaging 85.046 % from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2023, with 64 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 86.617 % in 2023 and a record low of 81.529 % in 1960. Australia Urban Population: % of Total 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. Urban population refers to people living in urban areas as defined by national statistical offices. The data are collected and smoothed by United Nations Population Division.;United Nations Population Division. World Urbanization Prospects: 2018 Revision.;Weighted average;

Australia urban population for 2023 was 23,091,181, a 2.63% increase from 2022.

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<li>Australia urban population for 2022 was <strong>22,499,333</strong>, a <strong>1.43% increase</strong> from 2021.</li>
<li>Australia urban population for 2021 was <strong>22,182,436</strong>, a <strong>0.28% increase</strong> from 2020.</li>
<li>Australia urban population for 2020 was <strong>22,120,168</strong>, a <strong>1.38% increase</strong> from 2019.</li>
</ul>Urban population refers to people living in urban areas as defined by national statistical offices. It is calculated using World Bank population estimates and urban ratios from the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects. Aggregation of urban and rural population may not add up to total population because of different country coverages.

This horizontal bar chart displays urban population (people) by country full name using the aggregation sum in Australia and New Zealand. The data is filtered where the date is 2021. The data is about countries per year.

People using at least basic drinking water services, urban (% of urban population) in Australia was reported at 99.96% in 2022, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Australia - People using at least basic drinking water services, urban (% of urban population) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

This bar chart displays urban population (people) by currency using the aggregation sum in Australia. The data is filtered where the date is 2021. The data is about countries per year.

The statistic shows the total population of Australia from 1980 to 2023, with projections up until 2030. In 2023, Australia had a total population of about 26.95 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.

Population in the largest city (% of urban population) in Australia was reported at 22.52 % in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Australia - Population in the largest city - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on July of 2025.

Australia Population in Urban Agglomerations of More Than 1 Million: as % of Total Population data was reported at 61.531 % in 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of 61.314 % for 2023. Australia Population in Urban Agglomerations of More Than 1 Million: as % of Total Population data is updated yearly, averaging 60.970 % from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2024, with 65 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 63.459 % in 1971 and a record low of 54.200 % in 1960. Australia Population in Urban Agglomerations of More Than 1 Million: as % of Total 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 urban agglomerations of more than one million is the percentage of a country's population living in metropolitan areas that in 2018 had a population of more than one million people.;United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects.;Weighted average;

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.

Data for Good Meta. High resolution population estimates for Australia. Includes total population, men, women, women of reproductive age, elderly, youth, and children subgroups. Creative Commons Attribute International License.

To facilitate population data retrieval across scale, we segment spatial coverage into equal sized tiles. GPU enabled spatial join via RapidsAI was employed to assign population information with each vector tile.

Reference: Facebook Connectivity Lab and Center for International Earth Science Information Network - CIESIN - Columbia University. 2016. High Resolution Settlement Layer (HRSL). Source imagery for HRSL © 2016 DigitalGlobe. Accessed 7 April 2023.

Australia Population in Largest City data was reported at 5,315,600.000 Person in 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of 5,235,407.000 Person for 2023. Australia Population in Largest City data is updated yearly, averaging 3,709,165.000 Person from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2024, with 65 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 5,315,600.000 Person in 2024 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.;;

Australia: Percent urban population with access to drinking water: The latest value from 2022 is 99.5 percent, unchanged from 99.5 percent in 2021. In comparison, the world average is 69.9 percent, based on data from 93 countries. Historically, the average for Australia from 2000 to 2022 is 99.2 percent. The minimum value, 98.3 percent, was reached in 2000 while the maximum of 99.7 percent was recorded in 2013.