According to the Daily Mail, Australia will usher in a new milestone in population next month, with a total population expected to exceed 25 million. If the population continues to grow at the current rate, by July 17, More than 42,000 newborns and immigrants will arrive in Australia.
Australia has a baby born every 1 minute and 43 seconds, and immigration is growing at an unprecedented rate, so the demographic milestone is expected.
In 2017, Australia's population grew faster than other developed countries, ranking 53rd in the world in terms of population.
According to demographer Mark McCrindle, Australia's birth rate is actually lower than in previous generations, but parents are actually more.
In 1961, Australian women had an average of 3.5 children in their lifetime, but that number plummeted to 1.9 a decade ago. By 2017, Australian women had an average of 1.7 children in their lifetime.
"now, there are more new parents in Australia than they used to be, but they have fewer children than they did 10 years ago," McCrindle said. "parents now have fewer children than their parents do."
The difference between this generation of Australians and their ancestors is not just the low fertility rate. Data show that women are now more likely to have children later in the day.
Women are more likely to spend less time in hospitals, more likely to have boys, and more likely to have children by caesarean section.
Now, the average age of Australia's new mothers, who were born in 1986, is 31, and their names may be Jessica,Sarah and Rebecca.. These are the three most popular names of the year.
And these moms gave birth to a baby whose name could be Oliver or Charlotte.. And data show that for every 100 girls born, 106 boys are born.
Mothers who gave birth to their children in 2018 are most likely to be 28 years old. After giving birth, the average stay of the mother in the hospital was two weeks.
Now, the average time a new mother is in custody is 2.9 days, and in some cases new mothers only need to be supervised for a few hours.
Technological improvements have greatly reduced infant mortality, and new mothers are often overwhelmed by information compared to postwar mothers.
Pinky McKay, a writer and infant expert, said mothers used to rely on messages from their parents and grandparents to raise fish for their own children, but now they have access to a wide variety of rich information. "I think the new mother often can't tell the right message from the wrong one."
By the 1980s, there was a call for natural birth, and mothers had access to all kinds of information about pregnancy. But now there are more and more mothers who give birth by caesarean section. In 1986, the average percentage of new state mothers who gave birth to a baby was 15.9 percent. Now, that proportion has climbed to 32.9%.
"interestingly, some aspects are actually retrogressive. In some hospitals, the percentage of caesarean deliveries has reached 70%. "
The number of cases of sudden infant death in Australia reached its highest in 1986, and infant mortality has fallen by 86% since then.
Advice such as no smoking has saved 9967 lives.