Australia in the rearview mirror: Shifting population dynamics transform our society

The simple exercise of looking at relative population shifts allows us to put social and economic trends into perspective. Photo: TND/Getty

In my column I often talk about population growth in absolute figures since this concept is just so simple to grasp.

Two weeks ago, I wrote a bit more about how relative population growth is a quick and dirty way of estimating changing market sizes. For today’s column we will be looking in the review mirror and discussing the shifting relative population change over the last 60 years.