Three days before Christmas, Treasury’s Centre for Population has without much fanfare issued its 2023 Population Statement.

As this is only weeks after the ABS issued its population estimates for 2022-23 and its long-term population projections, and a week after the Government issued its new migration strategy (in conjunction with the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO), there is merit in comparing these.

While one would expect there would be very little difference between agencies in the same portfolio, that is not the case even for the last financial year.

Table 1 compares the ABS data for 2022-23 with that........

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