I keep hearing that Australia’s population is so low due to uninhibitle land. Yet they have a very generous immigration attitude and there’s no child limit that I’m aware of. How can/does geography make any difference?

Question

I keep hearing that Australia’s population is so low due to uninhibitle land. Yet they have a very generous immigration attitude and there’s no child limit that I’m aware of. How can/does geography make any difference?

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Answer 1

Population is generally expressed as ‘so many thousands of people per unit of area’. When you live on a huge landmass, the centre of which is basically boiling desert and full of things that would kill you if you tried to live there, the sums will come out with a very small number even if your inhabited places are quite full.