In defence of population projections... and a story...
ABS Population Projections - 2022 to 2071
Last week, I had a meeting with the President of a community association for a regional town in Tasmania; he greeted me with, “So, you’re a demographer, why do you get population projections so wrong?”.
Today, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released their population projections for Australia and each state and territory, a five yearly process follow…