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Australia's population increased by 392,700 people in the year leading up to March 2026, reaching a total of 27.9 million, according to the Australia Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Nearly three-quarters of this growth came from net overseas migration, adding 292,100 immigrants while losing 265,400 emigrants, resulting in a net gain of 26,700 more people immigrating than leaving. The highest regional population increase was seen in Western Australia with a 2.1 percent growth rate.
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The Australia Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported that Australia's population grew by more than 392,700 people in the 12 months leading up to March 2026, reaching a total of 27.9 million people. Bjorn Jarvis, head of population statistics at ABS, noted that nearly 75% of this growth was due to overseas migration, which added 292,100 immigrants to the country's population from March 2025 to March 2026. Despite a decrease in immigration by 4% compared to the previous year, Australia’s population still saw an annual increase of 1.4%. Natural growth, defined as births minus deaths, contributed an additional 100,600 people, with both birth and death rates increasing by 0.3% and 3.1%, respectively. This recent uptick follows a dip in population growth during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic but has since begun to return towards pre-pandemic levels.
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Australia's population has grown by more than 392,000 people in 12 months, according to the Australia Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
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ABS head of population statistics Bjorn Jarvis said almost 75 per cent of the increase came from overseas migration.
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It marked a total annual increase of 1.4 per cent in the year leading up to March 2026.
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"Our population was 27.9 million people at 31 March 2026, that's 392,700 more than the same time in 2025," Mr Jarvis said.
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"Natural increase, that is the number of people born minus those who died, added 100,600 people to the population.
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"We saw 292,100 people added to our population from net overseas migration from March 2025 to March 2026.
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This was compared to 309,500 people in the previous 12 months.
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Population data for the past two decades showed the annual change plummeted in early 2020 with the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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It peaked again in September 2023 before beginning a slow return to pre-pandemic levels in the following years.
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In the past year, 557,500 people immigrated to Australia from overseas, a decrease of 4 per cent compared with the previous year.
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A further 265,400 emigrated from Australia in the same time period, a decrease of 2.2 per cent.
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The net overseas migration figure noted by Mr Jarvis came from subtracting the number of people migrating away from Australia from the number of people immigrating to Australia.
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All states and territories had some population growth in the year ending March 2026.
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Western Australia had the fastest growth rate, with an increase of 2.1 per cent or 64,200 people compared with the previous year.
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The majority of those immigrating to Australia moved to New South Wales, while Tasmania and the Northern Territory had the lowest numbers of overseas migration.
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