When the Intergenerational Report was released earlier this year, it included the next table showing that Australia’s population growth growth was the highest in the developed world between 2005 and 2010, running at an annual average pace of 1.8%:
Back in August, it was revealed that New Zealand had taken the mantle of population ponzi king, growing by 86,900 people, or 1.9%, in the year to 30 June 2015 on the back of record high immigration, easily surpassing Australia’s population growth rate of 1.4%:
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