Brisbane Fast Facts

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Brisbane Fast Facts

• Brisbane is Australia’s new world energy, clean technology, food city, with a $135 billion economy and beverage, infrastructure, manufacturing, life sciences and • Brisbane enjoys a sub-tropical mining and technologies sectors. climate, with year-round sunshine • Many of the 75,000 international • A population of 2.1 million call student enrolments at Brisbane Brisbane home, with a median institutions each year stay on age of 35 to embrace local employment • After English, Mandarin is the opportunities. second-most-common language • Brisbane’s South Bank spoken at home. precinct includes the Southern • The largest demographic in Hemisphere’s largest gallery of Brisbane is aged between 24 and modern art: GOMA, as well as a 40. world-class Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, venue of • More than a quarter of Brisbane the Brisbane 2014 G20 Leaders residents were born overseas. Summit. • Population numbers are expected • Brisbane’s spectacular natural to reach 3.9 million by 2056. attractions include beautiful • The city’s economy is predicted beaches, islands and lush to grow to more than $217 billion rainforests all within an hour of by 2031. the city. • It is the closest Australian eastern • Brisbane’s location enables an seaboard capital city to Asia. extended work day across three international time zones. • Brisbane’s economy benefits from a strong mining and energy • It is regularly singled out as a sector, servicing many countries city to watch with its optimal around the world with coal and location, growing depth of talent, other commodities. innovation and diverse economic growth potential. • Brisbane is a global player in business, major events and For more information, international education. visit choosebrisbane.com • Brisbane’s economic growth is fuelled by a competitive base for doing business, high levels of business investment and innovation and the largest public infrastructure spending program in Australia’s history. • Investors seek opportunities in Brisbane across the renewable