Melbourne’s population hits 5 million, smashing all projections

Monday 27 August 2018

Following a 1.2 million (33%) increase in Melbourne’s population in just 13 years, which included an insane 580,000 people over the past five years alone:

Melbourne’s population yesterday hit 5 million people, one million more than was officially projected by mid-century just 20 years ago. From McCrindle:

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.