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Estimated resident population by region (ASGS Edition 3), annual

abs/regional-populationAustralian Bureau of Statistics

Current release rel_01M4KR836XD4ZPSCVRAEKB76RT, published .

Fields

string

string

date

decimal(18,0), persons

string

string

string

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The first rows of the release, written when it was published: free to read, no units spent.

The first rows of release rel_01M4KR836XD4ZPSCVRAEKB76RT
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STE16620715PSNSnullnull
STE16650735PSNSnullnull
STE16693206PSNSnullnull
STE16742690PSNSnullnull
STE16834156PSNSnullnull
STE16943461PSNSnullnull
STE17053755PSNSnullnull
STE17144292PSNSnullnull
STE17218529PSNSnullnull
STE17304244PSNSnullnull
STE17404032PSNSnullnull
STE17508353PSNSnullnull
STE17616168PSNSnullnull
STE17732858PSNSnullnull
STE17855316PSNSnullnull
STE17954476PSNSnullnull
STE18046748PSNSnullnull
STE18110610PSNSnullnull

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, 4.0. Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Estimated resident population by region (ASGS Edition 3), annual, retrieved 10 Oct 2026. © Commonwealth of Australia. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Changes: Reshaped by OpenDataRouter from the ABS Data API dataflow ABS_ANNUAL_ERP_ASGS2021 to one row per area and year; periods typed as dates (the first day of each year, for the population at 30 June of that year) and values as whole-number decimals. Values unchanged.

Cite as: Australian Bureau of Statistics (2026). Estimated resident population by region (ASGS Edition 3), annual [release rel_01M4KR836XD4ZPSCVRAEKB76RT]. Retrieved 10 Oct 2026 via OpenDataRouter.

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