NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure

2016 NSW Population Projections

Data files and papers for the 2016 release of the NSW population projections. These projections are an update of the 2014 NSW population projections. They take into account findings from the 2011 Census of Population and Housing, final rebased and recast Estimated Resident Populations (ERPs) published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and the latest information about births, deaths and migration at the time of release.

These projections have since been superseded. The latest release (at November 2025) is the 2024 NSW population projections, published in November 2024.

The 2024 projections are available at https://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/data-and-insights/population-projections.

Official NSW population projections are updated twice in a five-year cycle. The schedule for these updates is linked to the timing of Australia's census.

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2016 NSW Population Projections - State and LGA data
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2016 NSW Population Projections - NSW high and low series
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2016 NSW Population Projections - NSW scenarios
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2016 NSW Household and Dwelling Projections data
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2016 NSW Population Projections - Sydney Metro LGA data
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2016 NSW Population Projections - Regional NSW LGA data A-F
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2016 NSW Population Projections - Regional NSW LGA data G-N
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2016 NSW Population Projections - Regional NSW LGA data O-Y
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2016 NSW Population Projections - LGAs high and low series
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2016 NSW Population Projections - planning regions high a...
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2016 NSW Population Projections - planning regions scenarios
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2016 NSW Population Projections - Local Health Districts
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Title 2016 NSW Population Projections
Date Published 20/11/2025
Last Updated 20/11/2025
Publisher/Agency NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure
Licence Creative Commons Attribution
Update Frequency asNeeded
Temporal Coverage 30/06/2011 - 30/06/2041
Geospatial Coverage
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