Peter Francis McDonald AO FASSA (born 1946) is an Australian demographer and Emeritus Professor of Demography in the Crawford School of Public Policy of the Australian National University.
McDonald has had a significant impact on demographic teaching, research and policy formulation.
[1] In 2013, then-Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, described McDonald as "arguably the world’s leading demographer".
[4] Together with Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi and Meimanat Hosseini-Chavoshi, McDonald won Iran's Book of the Year Award in 2010 for the book The Fertility Transition in Iran: Revolution and Reproduction.
[7] McDonald was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours.