Key statistics on population and family

Children and young people in Queensland: a snapshot

Table 1: Key statistics on population and family, Queensland, 1998 to 2007 and Australia, 2007
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Table 1: Population and family statistics, Queensland, 1998 to 2007 and Australia, 2007

Topic / Indicator	Queensland 1998 to 2007										Aust.
	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2007
Population (per cent)
Population aged under 18 - of all populationa	26.1	25.9	25.8	25.6	25.3	25.0	24.7	24.6	24.4	24.5	23.5
Indigenous population aged under 18 - of all Indigenous populationb	na	na	na	46.1	46.0	45.8	45.5	45.2	44.8	45.8	44.5 (2006)
Indigenous population (per cent)
Indigenous population aged under 18 - of all population under 18 yearsb	na	na	na	6.2	6.3	6.3	6.3	6.3	6.3	6.0	4.3 (2006)
Single parent families (percent)
Children aged under 15 living in single parent families - of all children under 15 yearsc	19.4	20.3	19.0	21.5	22.6	20.4	22.6	19.6	19.5	20.6	19.5
Indigenous single parent families with children 0-14 years - of all Indigenous families with children 0-14 yearsd	na	na	na	37.8	na	na	na	na	na	na	38.3 (2001)
Teenage births (per cent)
Births to teenage mothers - of all birthse	6.1	6.1	6.1	6.1	6.1	5.8	5.8	5.4	5.2	na	4.0 (2006)
Births to teenage Indigenous mothers - of all births to Indigenous motherse	17.3	19.3	19.4	19.2	19.6	20.4	19.7	18.7	17.7	na	19.2 (2006)
Teenage fertility (births per 1000 females 15-19)
Teenage fertility rate e	23.3	22.4	22.7	22.5	22.3	21.6	21.7	20.5	19.7	na	15.4 (2006)
Indigenous teenage fertility ratee	69.5	71.2	75.6	74.2	74.6	76.0	67.8	66.7	60.9	na	69.2 (2005)
Jobless parents (per cent)
Couple families with children aged under 15 where neither parent is employed - of all couple families with children under 15 yearsc	9.6	8.3	7.9	8.8	8.0	7.0	6.0	5.1	5.7	4.2	4.8
Single parent families with children aged under 15 where parent is not employed - of all single parent families with children under 15 yearsc	57.2	54.2	52.6	52.2	57.2	55.0	52.5	53.8	na	na	50.7 (2005)

Notes and sources:

na Not available

1. Australian Bureau of Statistics, Population by Age and Sex, Australian States and Territories, cat. no. 3201.0.
2. Based on experimental estimates of resident populations. ABS, Experimental Estimates and Projections, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, cat. no. 3238.0; ABS, Census 2001: Indigenous profiles.
3. Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Social Trends, cat. no. 4102.0.
4. Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census 2001: Indigenous profiles (table 12).
5. Australian Bureau of Statistics, Births Australia, cat. no. 3301.0.

The report Snapshot 2008: Children and young people in Queensland and additional tables can be found here

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