Australias population

1. What is demography?
   
    The study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations
   
2. In what year did the Australian population reach 20 million? How quickly is the population growing?
   
   September 4th 2003
   
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?
   
   Fertility rate in 2010 (births/woman) is 1.78
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?
   
   It was 2.1, The great depression was occurring in that time.
   
7. What is the trend in the fertility rate for Australia since 1950?
   
   The trend is overall reclining, 2008 the baby bonus made it jump a little, yet now it is back to reclining.
8. What is the average size of a family in Australia? How does that compare to the US?
   
   The average size of an Australian family is 2.6 and compared to the US they have 2.59