Australia’s 2026 intergenerational report forecasts longer lives, falling fertility, slower population and economic growth, weaker housing affordability, longer working lives and rising health costs. It projects deaths will outnumber births from the 2060s, population growth will rely entirely on immigration, and the economy will more than double by the mid-2060s.
0.9%
Australia’s population growth rate is forecast to average 0.9% a year over the next four decades.