Australia's population grew by 1.5 per cent to 27.8 million over the year to December 2025, the Australian Bureau of Statistics announced this week.
This represents a growth of 412,500 more people than in December 2024. Natural increase added 111,500 people, with births and deaths up by 3.6 per cent and 0.1 per cent respectively.
Net overseas migration added 301,000 people over the year.
Western Australia recorded the fastest growing population, up 2.2 per cent compared with the previous year.
That was followed by Victoria, which grew by 1.7 per cent, Queensland and the NT (both up 1.6 per cent), the ACT (1.3 per cent), New South Wales (1.2 per cent) and South Australia (1.0 per cent).
Tasmania had the slowest growth, adding just 0.5 per cent over the year.