Population forecasting
Policy
Looking forward 2050: managing population growth for all Victorians - interim report
This policy document has been prepared by the Victorian Liberal National Coalition, in an attempt to develop a clear strategy to manage population growth across the state, including how to best incentivise the regions to grow and encourage people to live and work in regional Victoria.
Journal article
The relative (un)certainty of subnational population decline
Presents findings on whether population decline is inevitable for New Zealand’s rural and peripheral areas.
Audio
Are we looking at the wrong measure of economic wellbeing?
Successive treasurers have hailed Australia's long run of economic growth as a standout compared to the rest of the world. But if it's so good, how come many of us are feeling worse off? It could be because we're looking at the wrong measure of economic wellbeing. That's the finding of a new report by...
Strategy
Victoria in future 2016: population and household projections to 2051
Victoria in Future 2016 (VIF2016) is the official state government projection of population and households. Projections are used by decision makers across government and in other areas. The results are driven by assumptions concerning demographic and land use trends.
Report
A regional career: migration histories of professionals in Bendigo, Victoria
The exodus of young adults to capital cities is concerning as their loss has critical implications for regional areas.There has been a lot of focus on population loss in regional areas but less research attention has been paid to the people who stay in, or move to, regional Victoria. The findings presented in this report...