4 Mar
2014
4 Mar
'14
11:19 p.m.
Russell Coker wrote:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/as.html
According to the CIA we have a birth rate of 1.77 children per woman which is significantly less than the ~2.1 that would be needed to maintain the population.
If Australia is going to maintain it's current population then we have to have some migration. For every 177 children born in Australia we need about 33 immigrants.
Apropos: | Almost a quarter of Victoria's population was born overseas. | | Melbourne exceeds the national average in terms of proportion of | residents born overseas: 34.8% compared to a national average of | 23.1%. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Melbourne