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Posted Feb 25, 2024, 10:28 PM
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Melbourne surpasses Sydney in population
Didn't catch this news when it came out.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-populous-city
I find this Sydney-Melbourne zigzag fascinating. Sydney was older but Melbourne was the larger city for most of the 19th century. Sydney reached 50,000 first, but Melbourne reached 100,000 first due to the gold rush. Then Sydney pulled ahead around the turn of the 20th century. But Melbourne is faster growing today and since the mid-19th century they've always been pretty close in size.
It's not like Toronto/Montreal where Toronto eventually pulled ahead and never looked back.
19th century populations:
1851
Sydney 53,924
Melbourne 23,143
1861
Melbourne 139,916
Sydney 95,789
1871
Melbourne 206,780
Sydney 137,776
1881
Melbourne 282,947
Sydney 224,939
1891
Melbourne 490,896
Sydney 383,283
Metropolitan populations, going back to 1901 (2021 is prior to the update).
1901
Sydney 481,117
Melbourne 480,279
1911
Sydney 629,503
Melbourne 582,275
1921
Sydney 899,059
Melbourne 766,465
1933
Sydney 1,235,267
Melbourne 983,173
1947
Sydney 1,626,083
Melbourne 1,275,525
1954
Sydney 1,863,217
Melbourne 1,524,062
1961
Sydney 2,183,231
Melbourne 1,911,895
1971
Sydney 2,807,828
Melbourne 2,436,335
1981
Sydney 3,204,696
Melbourne 2,806,000
1991
Sydney 3,672,855
Melbourne 3,156,700
2001
Sydney 4,128,272
Melbourne 3,366,542
2011
Sydney 4,627,345
Melbourne 3,999,982
2021
Sydney 5,231,147
Melbourne 4,917,750
Last edited by Docere; Feb 25, 2024 at 10:49 PM.
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