New data has revealed the pandemic has left Australia’s population smaller, older and saddled with a crippling skills shortage.
Data from the Albanese Government’s Population Statement 2023 – due to be released on Friday – suggests net overseas migration has begun a slow recovery and will return to pre-COVID levels this financial year.
This marks a sharp uptick from the record lows seen in the midst of the pandemic, where Australia saw the first net migration loss since WWII with a drop of 85,000 people. Migration levels dropped to record lows during the COVID-19 pandemic. Picture: NewsWire / Monique Harmer If COVID-19 had never happened, 473,000 more people would have been in the country, according to cumulative net migration figures across 2019-20 to 2025-26.
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