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

population

indicators in

Australia

and

Malaysia

in 1980 and 2002.

Overall

, the picture provides the total of residents, the

population

of genders, the elder and newborn

population

and the average annual

population

growth.

Initially

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

Malaysia

. In 2002,

Malaysia

grew rapidly 2002 to 24.3 million people

whereas

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

Australia

were more, and

Malaysia

the opposite. Moving to others remaining,

Malaysia

with a higher birth rate in the period given.

However

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

Australia

started with 1.5%, reducing to 1.3%.

Malaysia

with 3.2% in the initial survey

in contrast

to 2.2% in 2002. Compare to the average annual

population

growth,

Malaysia

(2.4%) was double

Australia

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

while

Australia

increased to 1.3% in the next statistic.

Furthermore

, the elder

population

markedly increased in both countries,

Australia

from 9.6% to 12.4%, and

Malaysia

began with 3.7%, coming to 4.3% eventually.