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Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says Australia’s population growth has been its “lowest in almost a century” but is expected to rebound through skilled migration.

“That’s a factor of the closed borders and well as a structural decline in our fertility rate which is a challenge for our country and does mean an aging of the population,” he told Sky News Australia.

Mr Frydenberg said the expectation for 2021 and 2022 was to “see net migration go negative” and to have more people leaving Australia than coming here.

“We we did have in the budge that we would gradually get back to 235,000 people a year at the end of the forward estimates period so expectation is once borders reopen,” he said.

“Obviously with high vaccination rates that’s making that possible so we will start to see the people come back.”