News Life and Health22 Sep 2026

Australia:Ageing population, falling birth rates and growing disasters could pose a significant risk

| 22 Sep 2026

Australia's population will age more quickly but grow more slowly than projected earlier, due primarily to lower fertility rates - a trend common across advanced economies. Deaths are projected to outnumber births by the 2060s - the first time this has been forecast in an Intergenerational Report for 2026.

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