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The pandemic has led to an aging and stagnation of the Australian population

“Now our population is smaller and older,” concludes the Australian government report. | Font: AFP

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the strict health crisis restrictions imposed Australia This has led to population stagnation and an increase in the average age due to the restriction of the arrival of immigrants, according to a report published this Friday.

Population Paper 2022 released Governmentemphasizes that the pandemic has had a “significant impact” on the population, largely due to the country’s severe entry restrictions that have “restricted” the arrival of foreign immigrants.

“As a result, our population is now smaller and older than it was thought before the pandemic began,” the government report said.

The population of the ocean country, which has tightly closed its borders for more than two years, with a few exceptions, grew by 0.1% during 2020-2021, far from the annual average of 1.6% recorded in the past decade and remained at the same level. 25.7 million people. in July 2021.

The main reason was travel restrictions that resulted in the loss of 85,000 immigrants in the same period, which has not been seen since World War II and which contrasts with a net immigration of 239,000 foreigners in 2018-2019 and 154,100 in 2019-2020 .

elderly population

This stagnation during global health crisis This also affects the average age of the population, which is projected to have increased from an average of 38.4 years in 2020-2021 to an average of 40.1 years in 2032-2033.

The report also highlights that while the death rate has increased in Australia during the pandemic, it didn’t have a “major impact” compared to other developed countries, while the birth rate, “declining in the last 60 years”, also did not suffer much, although it continues its downward trend. (EFE)


Source: RPP

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