Australia is in a high population growth phase and has been for much of this decade.

Assisted by higher birth rates and heightened net overseas migration, Australia added a record 406,000 residents last year. The previous record was 375,000 in the year to June 2007. During the 1990s, the nation's annual growth averaged 211,000. Births last year reached 297,000, up 49,000 on 2003, and net overseas migration was 253,000, up 143,000 on five years earlier.

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