File:Australian population data as a percentage 1881-2000.svg

Summary
Graph of Australian population by territory with data points from 1881 through 2000.

Source:

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This graph was created with gnuplot. My "commands" file contained:

set terminal svg size 800 400 fname "Arial" fsize 20 enhanced set grid back lw 1 set border 3 set ytics nomirror set xtics nomirror set key outside Left reverse spacing 0.8 samplen 1 width -10 set ylabel "Percentage of total population" 0.6,0 set size ratio 0.8 plot "data" using 1:2 with lines lw 2 lt 1 title "New South Wales", "data" using 1:3 with lines lw 2 lt 2 title "Victoria", "data" using 1:4 with lines lw 2 lt 3 title "Queensland", "data" using 1:5 with lines lw 2 lt 5 title "South Australia", "data" using 1:6 with lines lw 2 lt 6 title "Western Australia", "data" using 1:7 with lines lw 2 lt 7 title "Tasmania", "data" using 1:8 with lines lw 2 lt 8 title "Northern Territory", "data" using 1:9 with lines lw 2 lt 9 title "Australian Capital Territory"
 * 1) Skipping linetype (lt) 4; it's cyan and not very dark against white backgrounds.

My "data" file contained:

# # 1881	33.3	38.3	9.5	12.3	1.3	5.1	0.2	0 1901	35.9	31.8	13.2	9.5	4.9	4.6	0.1	0 1921	38.6	28.2	13.9	9.1	6.1	3.9	0.1	0 1947	39.4	27.1	14.6	8.5	6.6	3.4	0.1	0.2 1961	37.3	27.9	14.4	9.2	7	3.3	0.2	0.6 1976	35.3	26.9	15.2	9.1	8.4	2.9	0.7	1.5 1996	33.9	24.9	18.2	8.1	9.6	2.6	1	1.7 2000	33.7	24.9	18.6	7.8	9.8	2.5	1	1.6
 * 1) http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0PCG/is_2002_Sept/ai_105657372/pg_1
 * 2) Changing patterns of population distribution in Australia
 * 3) Journal of Population Research,  Sept, 2002  by Graeme Hugo
 * 4) p11
 * 1) Table 1: Distribution of population between states and territories, 1881-2000
 * 1) Territory	New South Wales	Victoria	Queensland	South Australia	Western Australia	Tasmania	Northern Territory	Australian Capital Territory

I generated the output with the command:

gnuplot out.svg

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