UNSW Embryology

Statistics - Australian 1997/98

© Dr Mark Hill (2006)

Acknowledgements

Introduction

The World Factbook is prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency for the use of US Government officials, and the style, format, coverage, and content are designed to meet their specificrequirements.

In addition to the full Australian 1998 Entry (below), I have included on other pages some comparative Population statistics from a range of other countries.

This data is excerpted from the World Factbook 1998 and relates to populations within individual countries.

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Population Data

(July 1998 est.)

Australia

United States

United Kingdom

Germany

China

India

Population

18,613,087

270,311,756

58,970,119

82,079,454

1,236,914,658

984,003,683

Age structure

0-14 years:

21%

22%

19%

16%

26%

34%

15-64 years:

66%

66%

65%

68%

68%

61%

65 years +:

13%

12%

16%

16%

6%

5%

Population growth rate

0.93%

0.87%

0.25%

0.02%

0.83%

1.71%

Birth rate
births/1,000 population

13.47

14.4

12.01

8.84

15.73

25.91

Death rate
deaths/1,000 population

6.89

8.8

10.72

10.77

6.99

8.69

Sex ratio (male(s)/female)

at birth:

1.06

1.05

1.05

2.08

1.15

1.05

under 15 years:

1.05

1.05

1.05

1.06

1.13

1.06

15-64 years:

1.02

0.99

1.01

1.05

1.07

1.08

65 years +:

0.77

0.7

0.7

0.59

0.88

1.04

Infant mortality rate
(deaths/1,000 live births)

5.26

6.44

5.87

5.2

45.46

63.14

Life expectancy at birth (years)

total population:

79.89

76.13

77.19

76.99

69.59

62.9

male:

76.95

72.85

74.57

73.83

68.32

62.11

female:

82.98

79.58

79.96

80.33

71.06

63.73

Total fertility rate (children born/woman)

1.82

2.07

1.7

1.25

1.8

3.24

Population Data Neighbours

(July 1998 est.)
Australia

New Zealand

Indonesia

Papua
New Guinea

Singapore

Malaysia

Population

18,613,087

3,625,388

212,941,810

4,599,785

3,490,356

20,932,901

Age structure

0-14 years:

21%

23%

31%

40%

21%

36%

15-64 years:

66%

65%

65%

57%

72%

60%

65 years +:

13%

12%

4%

3%

7%

4%

Population growth rate

0.93%

1.04%

1.49%

2.27%

1.2%

2.11%

Birth rate
births/1,000 population

13.47

14.89

23.1

32.37

13.79

26.5

Death rate
deaths/1,000 population

6.89

7.6

8.22

9.65

4.68

5.36

Sex ratio (male(s)/female)

at birth:

1.06

1.05

1.05

1.05

1.08

1.06

under 15 years:

1.05

1.05

1.03

1.05

1.06

1.05

15-64 years:

1.02

1.01

0.99

1.09

1

1

65 years +:

0.77

0.76

0.79

0.84

0.8

0.77

Infant mortality rate
(deaths/1,000 live births)

5.26

6.37

59.23

57.09

3.87

22.45

Life expectancy at birth (years)

total population:

79.89

77.55

62.49

58.06

78.49

70.36

male:

76.95

74.35

60.28

57.18

75.46

67.35

female:

82.98

80.91

64.81

58.98

81.77

73.56

Total fertility rate (children born/woman)

1.82

1.91

2.61

4.26

1.46

3.37

Population Data Trading Partners

(July 1998 est.)

Australia

Canada

Japan

South Africa

Sweden

France

Population

18,613,087

30,675,398

125,931,533

42,834,520

8,886,738

58,804,944

Age structure

0-14 years:

21%

20%

15%

35%

19%

19%

15-64 years:

66%

68%

69%

61%

64%

65%

65 years +:

13%

12%

16%

4%

17%

16%

Population growth rate

0.93%

1.09%

0.2%

1.42

0.26%

0.31%

Birth rate
births/1,000 population

13.47

12.12

10.26

26.43

11.7

11.68

Death rate
deaths/1,000 population

6.89

7.25

7.94

12.28

10.78

9.12

Sex ratio (male(s)/female)

at birth:

1.06

1.05

1.05

1.03

1.05

1.05

under 15 years:

1.05

1.05

1.05

1.01

1.05

1.04

15-64 years:

1.02

1.01

1.01

0.98

1.03

1

65 years +:

0.77

0.74

0.71

0.67

0.73

0.67

Infant mortality rate
(deaths/1,000 live births)

5.26

5.59

4.1

52.04

3.93

5.69

Life expectancy at birth (years)

total population:

79.89

79.16

80

55.65

79.19

78.51

male:

76.95

75.86

76.91

53.56

76.52

74.6

female:

82.98

82.63

83.25

57.8

82

82.62

Total fertility rate (children born/woman)

1.82

1.65

1.46

3.16

1.76

1.63

About the Factbook

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Finally

For those wanting to see dynamic processes of development (and have a reasonably quick connection) then the Movies pages are good for watching changes occur.

Other Embryos

The study of human development has relied extensively on studying the process in other model animals. For those wanting to see the process of development in other species then the other embryos pages are a good start.

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