Christabel Young, Demography, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200

Figure 1 COMPARISON OF PROPORTIONS OF WOMEN MARRIED AT AGE 20-24 YEARS AND THEIR AVERAGE COMPLETED FAMILY SIZE. COHORTS OF WOMEN BORN 1832-36 TO 1972-76

Figure 2 TIMING OF DEMOGRAPHIC EVENTS DURING THE LIFE CYCLE OF SUCCESSIVE COHORTS OF WOMEN IN AUSTRALIA Source: C. Young (1989) Life cycle experience in the labour force’, Chapter 7 in David Pope and Lee Alston (eds) Australia’s Greatest Asset. Human Resources in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, The Federation Press, Sydney.

Figure 3 FEMALE LABOUR FORCE PARTICIPATION RATES BY COHORT BIRTH YEAR

Figure 4 COMPARISON OF AVERAGE NUMBER OF CHILDREN BORN TO ALL MARRIAGES WITH AVERAGE PERSON-YEARS IN THE LABOUR FORCE. COHORTS OF WOMEN

Figure 5 TOTAL DEPENDENCY RATIO (PERSONS AGED 0-14 OR 65+ YEARS AS A RATIO OF THOSE AGED 15-64 YEARS) 1861 TO 2051

Figure 6 MODIFIED LABOUR-FORCE DEPENDENCY RATIO (LFDR), ASSUMING THAT A PERSON AGED 65+ YEARS NOT IN THE LABOUR FORCE IS TWICE THE COST OF OTHERS NOT IN THE LABOUR FORCE

Figure 7 PROJECTIONS OF THE POPULATION OF AUSTRALIA TO 2051 ACCORDING TO DIFFERENT LEVELS OF ANNUAL NET MIGRATION