PoliticsNews brief

Health, wealth and housing: here’s what forecasters think Australia will look like in 2066

The Australian flag above Parliament House in Canberra
File photograph: The Australian flag above Parliament House in Canberra. Marcus Reubenstein / Unsplash. Illustrative context, not a photograph of this reported event.
WhatsAppXLinkedInEmail
Save for later

The country will be home to 40 million people, but fewer people will be having even fewer babies Australia in the 2060s will have an older population that is working harder while facing the rapid expansion of AI, the climate crisis and mounting geopolitical tensions. The intergenerational report – a predicted snapshot of life in 2066 – shows the population will grow to 40 million but fewer people will be having even fewer babies.

Read the original report at The Guardian.

Read in depth: Politics

What this story rests on

1 source from 1 organisation: 1 newspaper or magazine.

  1. 1The GuardianThe Guardian · theguardian.comNewspaper or magazine

Source headline and summary supplied via NewsData.io. First collected by NewsJaws on 2026-09-22. This is an automated news brief, not original NewsJaws reporting. Dates reflect the source publication. Feed delays may apply.

Researched and drafted with AI tools from these sources, then checked against them paragraph by paragraph before publication. How we work · Everyone we cite · Report an error

More from Politics

See all