Year 9: Australia's Population

Use the internet to answer these questions:

1. What is demography?
2. In what year did the Australian population reach 20 million? How quickly is the population growing?
3. How many Aboriginal people are estimated to have lived in Australia before Europeans arrived?
4. What the two main ways the population can grow? What percentage of the population growth in 2010 can be attributed to each way?
5. What is the total fertility rate for 2010?
6. What was the total fertility rate for Australia in 1935? How does this compare to other years? Why do you think that it compares this way?
7. What is the trend in the fertility rate for Australia since 1950?
8. What is the average size of a family in Australia? How does that compare to the US?