Australia population
Population, Australia · Australian Bureau of Statistics · March quarter 2026
Australia population 27,921,200 in the March quarter 2026, up 1.4% over the year.
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What the numbers say
Australia's estimated resident population was 27,921,200 in the March quarter 2026, compared with 27,790,300 in the December quarter 2025. It was up 1.4% over the year from the March quarter 2025, up 8.8% over 5 years from the March quarter 2021 and up 15.8% over 10 years from the March quarter 2016. The latest figure is at the peak, the highest since the series began in the June quarter 1981. The series' low was 14,923,300 in the June quarter 1981. The figures are published quarterly by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
What is the population of Australia?
Australia's estimated resident population was 27,921,200 in the March quarter 2026. That compares with 27,790,300 in the December quarter 2025.
Is the population of Australia growing?
Australia's estimated resident population was up 1.4% over the year to the March quarter 2026, reaching 27,921,200. That is the highest since the series began in the June quarter 1981.
How fast is the population of Australia growing?
Australia's estimated resident population was up 1.4% over the year from the March quarter 2025 to the March quarter 2026. Over the 5 years from the March quarter 2021 it was up 8.8%.
How much has the population of Australia changed over 10 years?
Australia's estimated resident population was up 15.8% over 10 years, from the March quarter 2016 to the March quarter 2026. It stood at 27,921,200 in the March quarter 2026.
Written from the figures on this page · updated 10 October 2026
Recent quarters
| Quarter | Value | Status |
|---|---|---|
| March quarter 2026 | 27,921,200 | final |
| December quarter 2025 | 27,790,300 | final |
| September quarter 2025 | 27,712,100 | final |
| June quarter 2025 | 27,601,700 | final |
| March quarter 2025 | 27,528,400 | final |
| December quarter 2024 | 27,391,100 | final |
| September quarter 2024 | 27,299,000 | final |
| June quarter 2024 | 27,194,300 | final |
Full series · 180 quarters · CSV · JSON
Australia: estimated resident population measures the number of people usually resident in Australia, in thousands of persons, at the end of each quarter. It is published quarterly by the Australian Bureau of Statistics and runs from June quarter 1981 to March quarter 2026, with the latest reading at 27,921,200. The series counts usual residents rather than everyone present in the country at a given moment, so short-term visitors sit outside it.
It sits alongside two related series in this family, Australia: net overseas migration and Australia: natural increase, which account for the components of change in the resident population. The data are released under CC BY 4.0.
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Source
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- Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, ABS earnings, building and population (market panel), retrieved 1 October 2026. CC BY 4.0.
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- Computed by Numbra from α.