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History Datasets and Visualisations

These datasets have been designed to satisfy criteria such as Year 5 – The Australian Colonies; Year 6 –Australia as a nation; and Year 10 –The modern world and Australia as outlined in the Australian Curriculum.
The data used in the sets have been extracted from ABS publications and adapted to make them printer friendly and easy to use. If you want other data, you can access all online ABS publications through the Statistics section.


DatasetTitle
Excel File
Link to Data Visualisation
Dataset H1Estimated resident population by country of birth, sex ratio and median age 1996–2009.
Pop_cob_sex_median.xlsPop_cob_sex_median.xls
(MS Excel document 122 KB)
Dataset H2Growth of Population in Australian states and territories 1788-2007 in one year intervals.
GrowthPop1788states.xls
(MS Excel document 179 KB)
Dataset H3Indigenous Population – estimates of the Indigenous population prior to 1971 and the enumerated census population count after 1971.
IndigenousPop.xls
(MS Excel document 332 KB)
Dataset H4Country of Birth Prior to 1901 – top countries of birth of people counted in Australian censuses from 1846–1891.
COBPre1901.xls
(MS Excel document 816 KB)
Dataset H5Top 30 Countries of Birth – top countries of birth of people counted in Australian censuses from 1901–2006.
Top30COB1901_2006.xls
(MS Excel document 1159 KB)
Dataset H6Sex ratio of Australian states and territories from 1796-2007.
Sex Ratio1796onwards.xls
(MS Excel document 234 KB)
Dataset H7Growth of the Australian Population – selected years from 1788–2007.
Population Growth Australia.xlsPopulation Growth Australia.xls
(MS Excel document 417 KB)


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