Learning Objectives

• Recognise the main factors that have shaped Australia’s population structure
• List the current leading causes of death and disease in adults in Australia
• Given an age-sex structure, identify the demographic period it represents, and describe the forces shaping it
• Describe the meaning of the terms epidemiological and demographic transitions
• Apply knowledge of these transitions to population groups, with special reference to the Aboriginal population and Torres Strait Islanders
• Describe the Demographic Transition Model & Epidemiological Transition Theory

Australian Population

• what are the 3 main factors shaping Australia’s population?
• Australia’s total fertility rate is below the [replacement level], what is this?
• what are the 3 leading causes of infant mortality?
• what are the 5 leading causes of adult death in Australia?
• what is the difference between non-Indigenous and ATSI population pyramids?
• what does the x and y axis of an age-sex structure represent?
• what is the best age to focus on to reduce child deaths?
• what does the dependency ratio show?
• compare infant vs child mortality rates?

Demographic Transition Model

• what is the demographic transition model?