According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 26 people left Katherine over the past year.

The equivalent of a football team has driven away.

The ABS today released its population estimates from 2016 to 2017.

Katherine has gone from 10,571 in the town council area to 10,545, according to these estimates.

The ABS says Roper Gulf Regional Council’s population has experienced a small rise, from 7434 to 7459.

Victoria Daly council’s population was fallen only slightly from 3204 to 3199.

For the first time on record, Sydney’s population grew by more than 100,000 people in one year, according to the ABS,

Sydney’s population hit 5.1 million at June 2017, an increase of 101,600 people (2 per cent) since June 2016.

But it was Melbourne that recorded the largest - and fastest growth - of Australia’s capital cities in 2016-17, increasing by 125,400 (2.7 per cent) to reach 4.9 million.

Together, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane accounted for over 70 per cent of Australia’s population growth in 2016-17.

Darwin, Adelaide and Perth on the other hand experienced relatively low rates of population growth, each at 1 per cent or less.