The table below gives information about populations in Australia and Malaysia in 1980 and 2002. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The table illustrates the comparative analysis of six

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indicators in

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and

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in 1980 and 2002.

Overall

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, the picture provides the total of residents, the

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of genders, the elder and newborn

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and the average annual

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growth.

Initially

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, there were 14.7 million Australians and a minor 1 million people in

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. In 2002,

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grew rapidly 2002 to 24.3 million people

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only 19.6 Australians were in the same period. Both countries' gender was almost equal, but there was a negligible comparison that females in

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were more, and

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the opposite. Moving to others remaining,

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with a higher birth rate in the period given.

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, all of them declined during 22 years. In fact,

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started with 1.5%, reducing to 1.3%.

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with 3.2% in the initial survey

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to 2.2% in 2002. Compare to the average annual

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growth,

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(2.4%) was double

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's rate (1.2%) but significantly fell to 2.1%

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increased to 1.3% in the next statistic.

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, the elder

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markedly increased in both countries,

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from 9.6% to 12.4%, and

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began with 3.7%, coming to 4.3% eventually.