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Life Summary

Name	Wilfred David Borrie
Born	2 September, 1913 Waimate, New Zealand
Died	1 January, 2000 (aged 86) Red Hill, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Cause of Death	unknown
Cultural Heritage	New Zealander Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Zubrzycki, Jerzy (colleague) Price, Charles Archibald (colleague)
Education *	London School of Economics (student, 1948-1949)
Occupation *	academic (1942-1947) New South Wales, Australia economic historian (1942-1947) New South Wales, Australia academic (1948-1978) Australian Capital Territory, Australia demographer (1948-2000) Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Awards	Officer of the Order of the British Empire (recipient, 1969) Commander of the Order of the British Empire (recipient, 1979)
Key Events *	National Population Inquiry (director, 1970-1978)
Legacies *	Borrie Prize (Australian Population Association) (eponym)
Key Organisations *	Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (fellow, ?-2000) International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (member, 1949-1981) UN Population Commission (chairman, 1965-1969) Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (executive director, 1979-1985) Australian Population Association (patron, 1980-2000)
Workplaces *	Knox Grammar School (Sydney) (schoolteacher, 1941-1941) University of Sydney (economics) (academic, 1942-1944) University of Sydney (social studies) (academic, 1944-1947) Australian National University (demography) (academic, 1948-1978) Australian National University (Research School of Social Sciences) (academic, 1948-1978) Australian National University (demography) (visiting fellow, 1978)

* Dates are approximate