Residents from the Braidwood postcode issued 236 applications last year. 

The Bungendore area issued 592 and Queanbeyan 3600. 

On average 8323 Australians applied for a passport each business day.

This equates to a passport being issued every three seconds.

 2,091,801 passports were issued in total which is 38 per cent more than 10 years ago.

14,438,972 Australians had a passport which amounts to 57 per cent of the population.

The top country for lost and stolen passports was Australia.

41,448 Australian passports were reported lost or stolen last year.

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