Population in Australia compared to the United Kingdom: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Australia and the United Kingdom: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Australia	United Kingdom	Australia	United Kingdom
1960	10,276,477	52,400,000	-	-
1961	10,483,000	52,800,000	2.01%	0.76%
1962	10,742,000	53,250,000	2.47%	0.85%
1963	10,950,000	53,650,000	1.94%	0.75%
1964	11,167,000	54,000,000	1.98%	0.65%
1965	11,388,000	54,348,050	1.98%	0.64%
1966	11,651,000	54,648,500	2.31%	0.55%
1967	11,799,000	54,943,600	1.27%	0.54%
1968	12,009,000	55,211,700	1.78%	0.49%
1969	12,263,000	55,441,750	2.12%	0.42%
1970	12,507,000	55,663,250	1.99%	0.4%
1971	12,937,000	55,896,223	3.44%	0.42%
1972	13,177,000	56,086,065	1.86%	0.34%
1973	13,380,000	56,194,527	1.54%	0.19%
1974	13,723,000	56,229,974	2.56%	0.06%
1975	13,893,000	56,225,800	1.24%	-0.007%
1976	14,033,000	56,211,968	1.01%	-0.02%
1977	14,192,000	56,193,492	1.13%	-0.03%
1978	14,358,000	56,196,504	1.17%	0.005%
1979	14,514,000	56,246,951	1.09%	0.09%
1980	14,692,000	56,314,216	1.23%	0.12%
1981	14,923,260	56,333,829	1.57%	0.03%
1982	15,184,247	56,313,641	1.75%	-0.04%
1983	15,393,472	56,332,848	1.38%	0.03%
1984	15,579,391	56,422,072	1.21%	0.16%
1985	15,788,312	56,550,268	1.34%	0.23%
1986	16,018,350	56,681,396	1.46%	0.23%
1987	16,263,874	56,802,050	1.53%	0.21%
1988	16,532,164	56,928,327	1.65%	0.22%
1989	16,814,416	57,076,711	1.71%	0.26%
1990	17,065,128	57,247,586	1.49%	0.3%
1991	17,284,036	57,424,897	1.28%	0.31%
1992	17,478,635	57,580,402	1.13%	0.27%
1993	17,634,808	57,718,614	0.89%	0.24%
1994	17,805,468	57,865,745	0.97%	0.25%
1995	18,004,882	58,019,030	1.12%	0.26%
1996	18,224,767	58,166,950	1.22%	0.25%
1997	18,423,037	58,316,954	1.09%	0.26%
1998	18,607,584	58,487,141	1%	0.29%
1999	18,812,264	58,682,466	1.1%	0.33%
2000	19,028,802	58,892,514	1.15%	0.36%
2001	19,274,701	59,119,673	1.29%	0.39%
2002	19,495,210	59,370,479	1.14%	0.42%
2003	19,720,737	59,647,577	1.16%	0.47%
2004	19,932,722	59,987,905	1.07%	0.57%
2005	20,176,844	60,401,206	1.22%	0.69%
2006	20,450,966	60,846,820	1.36%	0.74%
2007	20,827,622	61,322,463	1.84%	0.78%
2008	21,249,199	61,806,995	2.02%	0.79%
2009	21,691,653	62,276,270	2.08%	0.76%
2010	22,031,750	62,766,365	1.57%	0.79%
2011	22,340,024	63,258,810	1.4%	0.78%
2012	22,733,465	63,711,000	1.76%	0.71%
2013	23,128,129	64,139,000	1.74%	0.67%
2014	23,475,686	64,620,000	1.5%	0.75%
2015	23,815,995	65,088,000	1.45%	0.72%
2016	24,190,907	65,607,000	1.57%	0.8%
2017	24,592,588	65,966,000	1.66%	0.55%
2018	24,963,258	66,289,000	1.51%	0.49%
2019	25,334,826	66,631,000	1.49%	0.52%
2020	25,649,248	66,744,000	1.24%	0.17%
2021	25,685,412	66,984,000	0.14%	0.36%
2022	26,014,399	67,604,000	1.28%	0.93%
2023	26,652,777	68,492,000	2.45%	1.31%
2024	27,204,809	69,226,000	2.07%	1.07%
2025	27,470,426	69,639,673	0.98%	0.6%
2026	27,728,157	70,020,350	0.94%	0.55%
2027	27,979,877	70,382,853	0.91%	0.52%
2028	28,228,958	70,732,699	0.89%	0.5%
2029	28,471,054	71,061,482	0.86%	0.46%
2030	28,707,292	71,377,535	0.83%	0.44%
2031	28,940,769	71,678,351	0.81%	0.42%
2032	29,169,013	71,959,934	0.79%	0.39%
2033	29,392,748	72,234,509	0.77%	0.38%
2034	29,614,137	72,497,650	0.75%	0.36%
2035	29,835,307	72,749,096	0.75%	0.35%
2036	30,056,752	72,990,847	0.74%	0.33%
2037	30,273,692	73,218,850	0.72%	0.31%
2038	30,488,994	73,441,349	0.71%	0.3%
2039	30,703,245	73,658,392	0.7%	0.3%
2040	30,916,122	73,868,334	0.69%	0.29%
2041	31,132,858	74,074,316	0.7%	0.28%
2042	31,352,893	74,275,779	0.71%	0.27%
2043	31,572,750	74,475,035	0.7%	0.27%
2044	31,790,565	74,667,284	0.69%	0.26%
2045	32,009,555	74,848,605	0.69%	0.24%
2046	32,232,946	75,020,949	0.7%	0.23%
2047	32,452,651	75,184,478	0.68%	0.22%
2048	32,672,016	75,337,543	0.68%	0.2%
2049	32,891,546	75,476,141	0.67%	0.18%
2050	33,105,190	75,600,588	0.65%	0.16%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Australia increased by 3,639,151 people (a 18% growth), while the United Kingdom gained 4,686,794 people (a 7.76% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Australia gained 3,861,460 (a 16.2% growth), while the United Kingdom's population increased by 4,857,462 (a 7.46% growth).

Australia was ranked 54th most populous country in 2005 and is 55th in 2025. The United Kingdom was ranked 21st in 2005 and ranked 22nd now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Australia's population will grow by 19.6% to 33,105,190 people with a rank change from 55th to 59th. The population of the United Kingdom will increase by 8.09% to 75,600,588 people and rank change from 22nd to 26th.