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Australians

Australians, colloquially known as Aussies, are the citizens, nationals and individuals associated with the country of Australia. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or ethno-cultural.[18] For most Australians, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Australian. Australian law does not provide for a racial or ethnic component of nationality, instead relying on citizenship as a legal status.

Australians
Total population
26,518,400 in Australia (2023)[1]
Map of the Australian diaspora

Common ancestries: English, Aboriginal Australian, Irish, New Zealander, German, Italian, Chinese and Indian.
Regions with significant populations
Australian diaspora: 577,255 (2019)[2]
 United Kingdom165,000 (2021)[3]
 United States98,969 (2019)[4]
 New Zealand75,696 (2018)[5]
 Vietnam22,000 (2013)[6]
 Canada21,115 (2016)[7]
 South Korea15,222 (2019)[8]
 Hong Kong SAR14,669 (2016)[9]
 Germany13,600 (2020)[10]
 Mainland China13,286 (2010)[11]
 Japan12,024 (2019)[12]
 Turkey13,286 (2010)[13]
Languages
Religion
Christianity (Catholicism, Anglicanism and other denominations), various non-Christian religions and irreligion[A][17]

Since the postwar period, Australia has pursued an official policy of multiculturalism and has the world's eighth-largest immigrant population, with immigrants accounting for 30 percent of the population in 2019.[19][20]

Between European colonisation in 1788 and the Second World War, the vast majority of settlers and immigrants came from the British Isles in the United Kingdom and Ireland (principally England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland), although there was significant immigration from China and Germany during the 19th century. Many early settlements were initially penal colonies to house transported convicts. Immigration increased steadily, with an explosion of population in the 1850s following a series of gold rushes. In the decades immediately following the Second World War, Australia received a large wave of immigration from across Europe, with many more immigrants arriving from Southern and Eastern Europe than in previous decades. Since the late 1970s, following the end of the White Australia policy in 1973, a large and continuing wave of immigration to Australia from around the world has continued into the 21st century, with Asia now being the largest source of immigrants.[21] A smaller proportion of Australians are descended from Australia's indigenous people, comprising Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders.

The development of a distinctive Australian identity and national character began in the 19th century. The primary language is Australian English. Australia is home to a diversity of cultures, a result of its history of immigration.[22] Since 1788, Australian culture has primarily been a Western culture strongly influenced by early Anglo-Celtic settlers.[23][24] As the Asian Australian population continues to expand and flourish as a result of changes in the demographic makeup of immigrants and as there has been increased economic and cultural intercourse with Asian nations, Australia has observed the gradual emergence of a "Eurasian society" within its major urban hubs, blending both Western and Asian material and popular culture within a distinctly Australian context. Other influences include Australian Aboriginal culture, the traditions brought to the country by waves of immigration from around the world,[25] and the culture of the United States.[26] The cultural divergence and evolution that has occurred over the centuries since European settlement has resulted in a distinctive Australian culture.[27][28]

Overview edit

The majority of Australians or their ancestors immigrated within the past three centuries, with the exception of the indigenous population and others from outlying islands who became Australian through expansion of the country.[citation needed]

Australians are referred to as "Aussies", or "Antipodeans" by those in the northern hemisphere.[29][30]

The primary law governing nationality regulations is the Australian Citizenship Act 2007, which came into force on 1 July 2007. Regulations apply to all states and territories of Australia. All persons born in Australia before 20 August 1986 were automatically citizens at birth regardless of the nationalities of their parents. Individuals born in the country after that date receive Australian citizenship at birth if at least one of their parents is an Australian citizen or permanent resident. Foreign nationals may be granted citizenship after living in the country for at least four years while holding permanent residency and showing proficiency in the English language.[citation needed]

History edit

The Colony of New South Wales was established by the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1788, with the arrival of the First Fleet, and five other colonies were established in the 19th century, now forming the six present-day Australian states. Large-scale immigration occurred following a series of gold rushes in the 1850s and after the First and Second World Wars, with many post-World War II migrants coming from Southern and Eastern Europe. Since the end of the White Australia policy in 1973, immigrants to Australia have come from around the world, and from Asia in particular.[21]

The predominance of the English language, the existence of a parliamentary system of government drawing upon the Westminster system, constitutional monarchy, American constitutionalist and federalist traditions, Christianity as the dominant religion, and the popularity of sports including cricket, rugby football and tennis are evidence of a significant Anglo-Celtic heritage derived from the descendants of early settlers who form an ancestral group known as Anglo-Celtic Australians. As a result of many shared linguistic, historical, cultural and geographic characteristics, Australians have often identified closely with New Zealanders in particular. Australian citizenship prior to 1949 was a social, moral, and political concept.[31] Prior to the introduction of Australian citizenship, Australians had the status of "British subjects".[32] The High Court of Australia in Potter v Minahan (1908) stated that "Although there is no Australian nationality as distinguished from British nationality, there is an Australian species of British nationality."[33]

Ancestries edit

The Australian Bureau of Statistics does not collect data on race, but asks each Australian resident to nominate up to two ancestries each census.[34] These ancestry responses are classified into broad standardised ancestry groups.[35] At the 2021 census, the number of ancestry responses within each standardised group as a proportion of the total population was as follows:[36] 57.2% European (including 46% North-West European and 11.2% Southern and Eastern European), 33.8% (including 29.9% Australian) Oceanian[N 1], 17.4% Asian (including 6.5% Southern and Central Asian, 6.4% North-East Asian, and 4.5% South-East Asian), 3.2% North African and Middle Eastern, 1.4% Peoples of the Americas, and 1.3% Sub-Saharan African. At the 2021 census, the most commonly nominated individual ancestries as a proportion of the total population were:[38]

European Australians edit

European Australians are Australians of whose descent is wholly or partially European. Australians of European descent are the majority in Australia, with the number of ancestry responses categorised within the European groups as a proportion of the total population amounting to 57.2% (including 46% North-West European and 11.2% Southern and Eastern European).[36][35] The proportion of Australians with European ancestry is thought to be higher than the numbers captured in the census as those nominating their ancestry as "Australian" are classified within the Oceanian group, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics has stated that most who nominate "Australian" as their ancestry are Anglo-Celtic Australians.[37] Since soon after the beginning of British settlement in 1788, people of European descent have formed the majority of the population in Australia.[39]

The largest statistical grouping of European Australians are Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians whose ancestors originate wholly or partially in the British Isles. This includes English Australians, Irish Australians, Scottish Australians and Welsh Australians.[40] Anglo-Celtic Australians have been highly influential in shaping the nation's character. By the mid-1840s, the numbers of freeborn settlers had overtaken the convict population. Although some observers stress Australia's convict history, the vast majority of early settlers came of their own free will.[41] Far more Australians are descended from assisted immigrants than from convicts, the majority of Colonial Era settlers being British and Irish.[42] About 20 percent of Australians are descendants of convicts.[43] Most of the first Australian settlers came from London, the Midlands and the North of England, and Ireland.[44][45][46] Settlers that arrived throughout the 19th century were from all parts of the United Kingdom and Ireland, a significant proportion of settlers came from the Southwest and Southeast of England, from Ireland and from Scotland.[47] In 1888, 60 percent of the Australian population had been born in Australia, and almost all had British ancestral origins. Out of the remaining 40 percent, 34 percent had been born in the British Isles, and 6 percent were of European origin, mainly from Germany and Scandinavia.[48] In the 1840s, Scots-born immigrants constituted 12 percent of the Australian population. There were 1.3 million British migrants to Australia in the period from 1861 to 1914, of whom 13.5 percent were Scots. 5.3 percent of the convicts transported to Eastern Australia between 1789 and 1852 were Scots.[49][better source needed] The census of 1901 showed that 98 percent of Australians had Anglo-Celtic ancestral origins.[50] In 1939 and 1945, still 98 percent of Australians had Anglo-Celtic ancestral origins.[51] Until 1947, the vast majority of the population were of British origin.[52]

Germans formed the largest non-British Isles ancestry for most of the 19th century.[53] Between 1901 and 1940, 140,000 non-British European immigrants arrived in Australia (about 16 percent of the total intake).[54] Before World War II, 13.6 percent were born overseas, and 80 percent of those were British.[55] Following the Second World War, large numbers of continental Europeans immigrated to Australia, with Italian Australians and Greek Australians being among the largest immigrant groups during the post-war era. During the 1950s, Australia was the destination of 30 per cent of Dutch emigrants and the Netherlands-born became numerically the second largest non-British group in Australia.[56] In 1971, 70 percent of the foreign born were of European origin.

Italian Australians are Australians of Italian ancestry, and comprise the largest non Anglo-Celtic European ethnic group in Australia, with the 2021 census finding 4.4% of the population claiming ancestry from Italy be they migrants to Australia or their descendants born in Australia of Italian heritage.[57][58] Australia's long-history of Italian immigration has given rise to an Italo-Australian dialect of the Italian language.

German Australians are Australians of German ancestry. The German community constitutes the second largest non-Anglo Celtic European ethnic group in Australia, amounting to 4% of respondents in the 2021 Census.[59] Germans formed the largest non-English-speaking group in Australia up to the 20th century.[60] Old Lutherans emigrated in response to the 1817 Prussian Union and organized churches both among themselves and with other German speakers, such as the Kavel-Fritzsche Synod.[citation needed] Although a few individuals had emigrated earlier,[61] the first large group of Germans arrived in South Australia 1838, not long after the British colonisation of South Australia. These "Old Lutherans" were from Province of Brandenburg (then a Prussian province), and were trying to preserve their traditional faith.[citation needed]

Asian Australians edit

Asian Australians are Australians with ancestry wholly or partially from the continent of Asia. At the 2021 census, the number of ancestry responses categorised within the Asian groups as a proportion of the total population amounted to 17.4% (including 6.5% Southern and Central Asian, 6.4% North-East Asian, and 4.5% South-East Asian).[36][35] This figure excludes Australians of Middle Eastern ancestry, who are separately categorised within the North African and Middle Eastern group.

Chinese Australians are Australians of Chinese ancestry, forming the single largest non Anglo-Celtic ancestry in the country, constituting 5.5% of those nominating their ancestry at the 2021 census.[62] Chinese Australians are one of the largest groups of Overseas Chinese people, forming the largest Overseas Chinese community in Oceania, and are the largest Asian-Australian community. Per capita, Australia has more people of Chinese ancestry than any country outside Asia. Many Chinese Australians have immigrated from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan as well as Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines, while many are descendants of such immigrants. The very early history of Chinese Australians involved significant immigration from villages of the Pearl River Delta in Southern China i.e. mostly from the Cantonese subgroup. More recent Chinese migrants include Mainland China, Taiwan, etc. which include those from Mandarin and other Chinese dialects or forms. Less well-known are the kinds of society Chinese Australians came from, the families they left behind and what their intentions were in migrating. Gold rushes lured many Chinese to the Australian colonies. (From the mid-19th century, Chinese dubbed Australia the New Gold Mountain after the Gold Mountain of California in North America.) They typically sent money to their families in the villages, regularly visited their families, and retired to their home villages after many years working as market gardeners, shopkeepers or cabinet-makers. As with many overseas Chinese groups the world over, early Chinese immigrants to Australia established several Chinatowns in major cities, such as Sydney (Chinatown, Sydney), Melbourne (Chinatown, Melbourne, since the 1850s) and Brisbane (Chinatown, Brisbane), Perth (Chinatown, Perth), as well as in regional towns associated with the goldfields such as Cairns (Cairns Chinatown).[63]

Indian Australians are Australians of Indian ancestry, and are the second-largest Asian Australian ancestry, comprising 3.1% of the total population.[64] Indian Australians are one of the largest groups within the Indian diaspora. Indians are the youngest average age (34 years) and the fastest growing community both in terms of absolute numbers and percentages in Australia.[19] Migration of Indians to Australia followed the pattern of "from 18th-century sepoys and lascars (soldiers and sailors) aboard visiting European ships, through 19th-century migrant labourers and the 20th century's hostile policies to the new generation of skilled professional migrants of the 21st century... India became the largest source of skilled migrants in the 21st century."[65]

Indigenous Australians edit

 
Aboriginal Australians, 1981
 
Australian Aboriginal Flag

Indigenous Australians are descendants of the original inhabitants of the Australian continent.[66] Their ancestors are believed to have migrated from Africa to Asia around 70,000 years ago[67] and arrived in Australia around 50,000 years ago.[68][69] The Torres Strait Islanders are a distinct people of Melanesian ancestry, indigenous to the Torres Strait Islands, which are at the northernmost tip of Queensland near Papua New Guinea, and some nearby settlements on the mainland. The term "Aboriginal" is traditionally applied to only the indigenous inhabitants of mainland Australia and Tasmania, along with some of the adjacent islands. Indigenous Australians is an inclusive term used when referring to both Aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders, i.e.: the "first peoples".

Dispersing across the Australian continent over time, the population expanded and differentiated into hundreds of distinct groups, each with its own language and culture.[70] More than 400 distinct Australian Aboriginal peoples have been identified across the continent, distinguished by unique names designating their ancestral languages, dialects, or distinctive speech patterns.[71]

In 1770, fearing he had been pre-empted by the French, James Cook changed a hilltop signal-drill on Possession Island in Torres Strait, into a possession ceremony, fabricating Britain's claim of Australia's east coast.[72] Eighteen years later, the east coast was occupied by Britain and later the west coast was also settled by Britain. At that time, the indigenous population was estimated to have been between 315,000 and 750,000,[73] divided into as many as 500 tribes[citation needed] speaking many different languages.

At the 2021 census, 3.2% of the Australian population identified as being IndigenousAboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders.[N 4][74] Indigenous Australians experience higher than average rates of imprisonment and unemployment, lower levels of education, and life expectancies for males and females that are, respectively, 11 and 17 years lower than those of non-indigenous Australians.[75][76] Some remote Indigenous communities have been described as having "failed state"-like conditions.[77]

Country of birth edit

In 2019, 30% of the Australian resident population, or 7,529,570 people, were born overseas.[19]

The following table shows Australia's population by country of birth as estimated by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 2021. It shows only countries or regions or birth with a population of over 100,000 residing in Australia.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics (2021)[78]
Place of birth Estimated resident population[B]
Total Australian-born 18,235,690
Total foreign-born 7,502,450
  England, Scotland, Wales
and Northern Ireland
[C]
967,390
  India 710,380
  China[D] 595,630
  New Zealand 559,980
  Philippines 310,620
  Vietnam 268,170
  South Africa 201,930
  Malaysia 172,250
  Italy 171,520
  Sri Lanka 145,790
  Scotland[E] 130,060
  Nepal 129,870
  United States 109,450
  Germany 107,940
  South Korea 106,560
  Hong Kong[F] 104,990
  Greece 100,650

For more information about immigration see Immigration to Australia and Foreign-born population of Australia.

Language edit

Although Australia has no official language, English has always been entrenched as the de facto national language.[79] Australian English is a major variety of the language with a distinctive accent and lexicon,[80] and differs slightly from other varieties of English in grammar and spelling.[81] General Australian serves as the standard dialect.

At the 2021 census, English was the only language spoken in the home for 72% of the population. The next most common languages spoken at home are Mandarin (2.7%), Arabic (1.4%), Vietnamese (1.3%), Cantonese (1.2%) and Punjabi (0.9%).[82] Over 250 Indigenous Australian languages are thought to have existed at the time of first European contact,[83] of which fewer than twenty are still in daily use by all age groups.[84][85] About 110 others are spoken exclusively by older people.[85] At the time of the 2006 census, 52,000 Indigenous Australians, representing 12% of the Indigenous population, reported that they spoke an Indigenous language at home.[86] Australia has a sign language known as Auslan, which is the main language of about 10,112 deaf people who reported that they use Auslan language at home in the 2016 census.[87]

Religion edit

Australia has no official religion; its Constitution prohibits the Commonwealth government, but not the states, from establishing one, or interfering with the freedom of religion.[88]

At the 2021 Census, 38.9% of the population identified as having "no religion",[89] up from 15.5% in 2001.[90] The largest religion is Christianity (43.9% of the population).[91] The largest Christian denominations are the Roman Catholic Church (20% of the population) and the Anglican Church of Australia (9.8%). Multicultural immigration since the Second World War has led to the growth of non-Christian religions, the largest of which are Islam (3.2%), Hinduism (2.7%), Buddhism (2.4%), Sikhism (0.8%), and Judaism (0.4%).[92]

In 2021, just under 8,000 people declared an affiliation with traditional Aboriginal religions.[92] According to Australian Aboriginal mythology and the animist framework developed in Aboriginal Australia, the Dreaming is a sacred era in which ancestral totemic spirit beings formed The Creation. The Dreaming established the laws and structures of society and the ceremonies performed to ensure continuity of life and land.[93]

Population edit

The current Australian resident population is estimated at 27,388,000 (25 November 2023).[94] This does not include Australians living overseas. In 2015, 2.15% of the Australian population lived overseas, one of the lowest proportions worldwide.[95] This ratio is much lower than many other countries in the OECD.

Historical population edit

The data in the table is sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics[96][97] The population estimates do not include the Aboriginal population before 1961. Estimates of Aboriginal population prior to European settlement range from 300,000 to one million, with archaeological finds indicating a sustainable population of around 750,000.[98]

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ The ABS gives the following "Explanatory Information" regarding census interpretation of irreligion: "'No religion' is equivalent to 'Secular Beliefs and Other Spiritual Beliefs and No Religious Affiliation'. For further details, see the Census of Population and Housing: Census Dictionary (cat. no. 2901.0)"[16]
  2. ^ Only countries with 100,000 or more are listed here.
  3. ^ The Australian Bureau of Statistics source lists England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland separately although they are all part of the United Kingdom. They are not combined because they are not combined in the source.
  4. ^ In accordance with the Australian Bureau of Statistics source, Mainland China, Taiwan and the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau are listed separately.
  5. ^ The Australian Bureau of Statistics source lists England and Scotland separately although they are both part of the United Kingdom. These should not be combined as they are not combined in the source.
  6. ^ In accordance with the Australian Bureau of Statistics source, Mainland China, Taiwan and the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau are listed separately.
  1. ^ Includes those who nominate "Australian" as their ancestry. The Australian Bureau of Statistics has stated that most who nominate "Australian" as their ancestry have at least partial Anglo-Celtic European ancestry.[37]
  2. ^ The Australian Bureau of Statistics has stated that most who nominate "Australian" as their ancestry have at least partial Anglo-Celtic ancestry.[37]
  3. ^ Those who nominated their ancestry as "Australian Aboriginal". Does not include Torres Strait Islanders. This relates to nomination of ancestry and is distinct from persons who identify as Indigenous (Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander) which is a separate question.
  4. ^ Indigenous identification is separate to the ancestry question on the Australian Census and persons identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander may identify any ancestry.

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This article is about people from Australia For other uses see Australian disambiguation This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Australians news newspapers books scholar JSTOR March 2023 Learn how and when to remove this template message Australians colloquially known as Aussies are the citizens nationals and individuals associated with the country of Australia This connection may be residential legal historical or ethno cultural 18 For most Australians several or all of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Australian Australian law does not provide for a racial or ethnic component of nationality instead relying on citizenship as a legal status AustraliansTotal population26 518 400 in Australia 2023 1 Map of the Australian diaspora Common ancestries English Aboriginal Australian Irish New Zealander German Italian Chinese and Indian Regions with significant populationsAustralian diaspora 577 255 2019 2 United Kingdom165 000 2021 3 United States98 969 2019 4 New Zealand75 696 2018 5 Vietnam22 000 2013 6 Canada21 115 2016 7 South Korea15 222 2019 8 Hong Kong SAR14 669 2016 9 Germany13 600 2020 10 Mainland China13 286 2010 11 Japan12 024 2019 12 Turkey13 286 2010 13 LanguagesEnglish 14 also Australian Aboriginal languages Auslan and other minority languages including 15 MandarinArabicCantoneseVietnameseItalianGreekHindiBengaliSpanishPunjabiReligionChristianity Catholicism Anglicanism and other denominations various non Christian religions and irreligion A 17 Since the postwar period Australia has pursued an official policy of multiculturalism and has the world s eighth largest immigrant population with immigrants accounting for 30 percent of the population in 2019 19 20 Between European colonisation in 1788 and the Second World War the vast majority of settlers and immigrants came from the British Isles in the United Kingdom and Ireland principally England Ireland Wales and Scotland although there was significant immigration from China and Germany during the 19th century Many early settlements were initially penal colonies to house transported convicts Immigration increased steadily with an explosion of population in the 1850s following a series of gold rushes In the decades immediately following the Second World War Australia received a large wave of immigration from across Europe with many more immigrants arriving from Southern and Eastern Europe than in previous decades Since the late 1970s following the end of the White Australia policy in 1973 a large and continuing wave of immigration to Australia from around the world has continued into the 21st century with Asia now being the largest source of immigrants 21 A smaller proportion of Australians are descended from Australia s indigenous people comprising Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders The development of a distinctive Australian identity and national character began in the 19th century The primary language is Australian English Australia is home to a diversity of cultures a result of its history of immigration 22 Since 1788 Australian culture has primarily been a Western culture strongly influenced by early Anglo Celtic settlers 23 24 As the Asian Australian population continues to expand and flourish as a result of changes in the demographic makeup of immigrants and as there has been increased economic and cultural intercourse with Asian nations Australia has observed the gradual emergence of a Eurasian society within its major urban hubs blending both Western and Asian material and popular culture within a distinctly Australian context Other influences include Australian Aboriginal culture the traditions brought to the country by waves of immigration from around the world 25 and the culture of the United States 26 The cultural divergence and evolution that has occurred over the centuries since European settlement has resulted in a distinctive Australian culture 27 28 Contents 1 Overview 1 1 History 2 Ancestries 2 1 European Australians 2 2 Asian Australians 2 3 Indigenous Australians 3 Country of birth 4 Language 5 Religion 6 Population 6 1 Historical population 7 See also 8 Notes 9 References 9 1 Citation 10 External linksOverview editThe majority of Australians or their ancestors immigrated within the past three centuries with the exception of the indigenous population and others from outlying islands who became Australian through expansion of the country citation needed Australians are referred to as Aussies or Antipodeans by those in the northern hemisphere 29 30 The primary law governing nationality regulations is the Australian Citizenship Act 2007 which came into force on 1 July 2007 Regulations apply to all states and territories of Australia All persons born in Australia before 20 August 1986 were automatically citizens at birth regardless of the nationalities of their parents Individuals born in the country after that date receive Australian citizenship at birth if at least one of their parents is an Australian citizen or permanent resident Foreign nationals may be granted citizenship after living in the country for at least four years while holding permanent residency and showing proficiency in the English language citation needed History edit Main articles History of Australia and Immigration history of Australia The Colony of New South Wales was established by the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1788 with the arrival of the First Fleet and five other colonies were established in the 19th century now forming the six present day Australian states Large scale immigration occurred following a series of gold rushes in the 1850s and after the First and Second World Wars with many post World War II migrants coming from Southern and Eastern Europe Since the end of the White Australia policy in 1973 immigrants to Australia have come from around the world and from Asia in particular 21 The predominance of the English language the existence of a parliamentary system of government drawing upon the Westminster system constitutional monarchy American constitutionalist and federalist traditions Christianity as the dominant religion and the popularity of sports including cricket rugby football and tennis are evidence of a significant Anglo Celtic heritage derived from the descendants of early settlers who form an ancestral group known as Anglo Celtic Australians As a result of many shared linguistic historical cultural and geographic characteristics Australians have often identified closely with New Zealanders in particular Australian citizenship prior to 1949 was a social moral and political concept 31 Prior to the introduction of Australian citizenship Australians had the status of British subjects 32 The High Court of Australia in Potter v Minahan 1908 stated that Although there is no Australian nationality as distinguished from British nationality there is an Australian species of British nationality 33 Ancestries editThe Australian Bureau of Statistics does not collect data on race but asks each Australian resident to nominate up to two ancestries each census 34 These ancestry responses are classified into broad standardised ancestry groups 35 At the 2021 census the number of ancestry responses within each standardised group as a proportion of the total population was as follows 36 57 2 European including 46 North West European and 11 2 Southern and Eastern European 33 8 including 29 9 Australian Oceanian N 1 17 4 Asian including 6 5 Southern and Central Asian 6 4 North East Asian and 4 5 South East Asian 3 2 North African and Middle Eastern 1 4 Peoples of the Americas and 1 3 Sub Saharan African At the 2021 census the most commonly nominated individual ancestries as a proportion of the total population were 38 English 33 Australian 29 9 N 2 Irish 9 5 Scottish 8 6 Chinese 5 5 Italian 4 4 German 4 Aboriginal 3 8 N 3 Indian Australians 3 1 Greek 1 7 Filipino 1 6 Dutch 1 5 Vietnamese 1 3 Lebanese 1 European Australians edit Main articles European Australians and Anglo Celtic Australians European Australians are Australians of whose descent is wholly or partially European Australians of European descent are the majority in Australia with the number of ancestry responses categorised within the European groups as a proportion of the total population amounting to 57 2 including 46 North West European and 11 2 Southern and Eastern European 36 35 The proportion of Australians with European ancestry is thought to be higher than the numbers captured in the census as those nominating their ancestry as Australian are classified within the Oceanian group and the Australian Bureau of Statistics has stated that most who nominate Australian as their ancestry are Anglo Celtic Australians 37 Since soon after the beginning of British settlement in 1788 people of European descent have formed the majority of the population in Australia 39 The largest statistical grouping of European Australians are Anglo Celtic Australians Australians whose ancestors originate wholly or partially in the British Isles This includes English Australians Irish Australians Scottish Australians and Welsh Australians 40 Anglo Celtic Australians have been highly influential in shaping the nation s character By the mid 1840s the numbers of freeborn settlers had overtaken the convict population Although some observers stress Australia s convict history the vast majority of early settlers came of their own free will 41 Far more Australians are descended from assisted immigrants than from convicts the majority of Colonial Era settlers being British and Irish 42 About 20 percent of Australians are descendants of convicts 43 Most of the first Australian settlers came from London the Midlands and the North of England and Ireland 44 45 46 Settlers that arrived throughout the 19th century were from all parts of the United Kingdom and Ireland a significant proportion of settlers came from the Southwest and Southeast of England from Ireland and from Scotland 47 In 1888 60 percent of the Australian population had been born in Australia and almost all had British ancestral origins Out of the remaining 40 percent 34 percent had been born in the British Isles and 6 percent were of European origin mainly from Germany and Scandinavia 48 In the 1840s Scots born immigrants constituted 12 percent of the Australian population There were 1 3 million British migrants to Australia in the period from 1861 to 1914 of whom 13 5 percent were Scots 5 3 percent of the convicts transported to Eastern Australia between 1789 and 1852 were Scots 49 better source needed The census of 1901 showed that 98 percent of Australians had Anglo Celtic ancestral origins 50 In 1939 and 1945 still 98 percent of Australians had Anglo Celtic ancestral origins 51 Until 1947 the vast majority of the population were of British origin 52 Germans formed the largest non British Isles ancestry for most of the 19th century 53 Between 1901 and 1940 140 000 non British European immigrants arrived in Australia about 16 percent of the total intake 54 Before World War II 13 6 percent were born overseas and 80 percent of those were British 55 Following the Second World War large numbers of continental Europeans immigrated to Australia with Italian Australians and Greek Australians being among the largest immigrant groups during the post war era During the 1950s Australia was the destination of 30 per cent of Dutch emigrants and the Netherlands born became numerically the second largest non British group in Australia 56 In 1971 70 percent of the foreign born were of European origin Italian Australians are Australians of Italian ancestry and comprise the largest non Anglo Celtic European ethnic group in Australia with the 2021 census finding 4 4 of the population claiming ancestry from Italy be they migrants to Australia or their descendants born in Australia of Italian heritage 57 58 Australia s long history of Italian immigration has given rise to an Italo Australian dialect of the Italian language German Australians are Australians of German ancestry The German community constitutes the second largest non Anglo Celtic European ethnic group in Australia amounting to 4 of respondents in the 2021 Census 59 Germans formed the largest non English speaking group in Australia up to the 20th century 60 Old Lutherans emigrated in response to the 1817 Prussian Union and organized churches both among themselves and with other German speakers such as the Kavel Fritzsche Synod citation needed Although a few individuals had emigrated earlier 61 the first large group of Germans arrived in South Australia 1838 not long after the British colonisation of South Australia These Old Lutherans were from Province of Brandenburg then a Prussian province and were trying to preserve their traditional faith citation needed Asian Australians edit Main article Asian Australians Asian Australians are Australians with ancestry wholly or partially from the continent of Asia At the 2021 census the number of ancestry responses categorised within the Asian groups as a proportion of the total population amounted to 17 4 including 6 5 Southern and Central Asian 6 4 North East Asian and 4 5 South East Asian 36 35 This figure excludes Australians of Middle Eastern ancestry who are separately categorised within the North African and Middle Eastern group Chinese Australians are Australians of Chinese ancestry forming the single largest non Anglo Celtic ancestry in the country constituting 5 5 of those nominating their ancestry at the 2021 census 62 Chinese Australians are one of the largest groups of Overseas Chinese people forming the largest Overseas Chinese community in Oceania and are the largest Asian Australian community Per capita Australia has more people of Chinese ancestry than any country outside Asia Many Chinese Australians have immigrated from Mainland China Hong Kong Macau and Taiwan as well as Indonesia Malaysia Singapore and the Philippines while many are descendants of such immigrants The very early history of Chinese Australians involved significant immigration from villages of the Pearl River Delta in Southern China i e mostly from the Cantonese subgroup More recent Chinese migrants include Mainland China Taiwan etc which include those from Mandarin and other Chinese dialects or forms Less well known are the kinds of society Chinese Australians came from the families they left behind and what their intentions were in migrating Gold rushes lured many Chinese to the Australian colonies From the mid 19th century Chinese dubbed Australia the New Gold Mountain after the Gold Mountain of California in North America They typically sent money to their families in the villages regularly visited their families and retired to their home villages after many years working as market gardeners shopkeepers or cabinet makers As with many overseas Chinese groups the world over early Chinese immigrants to Australia established several Chinatowns in major cities such as Sydney Chinatown Sydney Melbourne Chinatown Melbourne since the 1850s and Brisbane Chinatown Brisbane Perth Chinatown Perth as well as in regional towns associated with the goldfields such as Cairns Cairns Chinatown 63 Indian Australians are Australians of Indian ancestry and are the second largest Asian Australian ancestry comprising 3 1 of the total population 64 Indian Australians are one of the largest groups within the Indian diaspora Indians are the youngest average age 34 years and the fastest growing community both in terms of absolute numbers and percentages in Australia 19 Migration of Indians to Australia followed the pattern of from 18th century sepoys and lascars soldiers and sailors aboard visiting European ships through 19th century migrant labourers and the 20th century s hostile policies to the new generation of skilled professional migrants of the 21st century India became the largest source of skilled migrants in the 21st century 65 Indigenous Australians edit nbsp Aboriginal Australians 1981 nbsp Australian Aboriginal FlagMain articles Indigenous Australians Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders Indigenous Australians are descendants of the original inhabitants of the Australian continent 66 Their ancestors are believed to have migrated from Africa to Asia around 70 000 years ago 67 and arrived in Australia around 50 000 years ago 68 69 The Torres Strait Islanders are a distinct people of Melanesian ancestry indigenous to the Torres Strait Islands which are at the northernmost tip of Queensland near Papua New Guinea and some nearby settlements on the mainland The term Aboriginal is traditionally applied to only the indigenous inhabitants of mainland Australia and Tasmania along with some of the adjacent islands Indigenous Australians is an inclusive term used when referring to both Aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders i e the first peoples Dispersing across the Australian continent over time the population expanded and differentiated into hundreds of distinct groups each with its own language and culture 70 More than 400 distinct Australian Aboriginal peoples have been identified across the continent distinguished by unique names designating their ancestral languages dialects or distinctive speech patterns 71 In 1770 fearing he had been pre empted by the French James Cook changed a hilltop signal drill on Possession Island in Torres Strait into a possession ceremony fabricating Britain s claim of Australia s east coast 72 Eighteen years later the east coast was occupied by Britain and later the west coast was also settled by Britain At that time the indigenous population was estimated to have been between 315 000 and 750 000 73 divided into as many as 500 tribes citation needed speaking many different languages At the 2021 census 3 2 of the Australian population identified as being Indigenous Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders N 4 74 Indigenous Australians experience higher than average rates of imprisonment and unemployment lower levels of education and life expectancies for males and females that are respectively 11 and 17 years lower than those of non indigenous Australians 75 76 Some remote Indigenous communities have been described as having failed state like conditions 77 Country of birth editIn 2019 30 of the Australian resident population or 7 529 570 people were born overseas 19 The following table shows Australia s population by country of birth as estimated by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 2021 It shows only countries or regions or birth with a population of over 100 000 residing in Australia Source Australian Bureau of Statistics 2021 78 Place of birth Estimated resident population B Total Australian born 18 235 690Total foreign born 7 502 450 nbsp England Scotland Walesand Northern Ireland C 967 390 nbsp India 710 380 nbsp China D 595 630 nbsp New Zealand 559 980 nbsp Philippines 310 620 nbsp Vietnam 268 170 nbsp South Africa 201 930 nbsp Malaysia 172 250 nbsp Italy 171 520 nbsp Sri Lanka 145 790 nbsp Scotland E 130 060 nbsp Nepal 129 870 nbsp United States 109 450 nbsp Germany 107 940 nbsp South Korea 106 560 nbsp Hong Kong F 104 990 nbsp Greece 100 650For more information about immigration see Immigration to Australia and Foreign born population of Australia Language editMain article Languages of Australia Although Australia has no official language English has always been entrenched as the de facto national language 79 Australian English is a major variety of the language with a distinctive accent and lexicon 80 and differs slightly from other varieties of English in grammar and spelling 81 General Australian serves as the standard dialect At the 2021 census English was the only language spoken in the home for 72 of the population The next most common languages spoken at home are Mandarin 2 7 Arabic 1 4 Vietnamese 1 3 Cantonese 1 2 and Punjabi 0 9 82 Over 250 Indigenous Australian languages are thought to have existed at the time of first European contact 83 of which fewer than twenty are still in daily use by all age groups 84 85 About 110 others are spoken exclusively by older people 85 At the time of the 2006 census 52 000 Indigenous Australians representing 12 of the Indigenous population reported that they spoke an Indigenous language at home 86 Australia has a sign language known as Auslan which is the main language of about 10 112 deaf people who reported that they use Auslan language at home in the 2016 census 87 Religion editMain article Religion in Australia Australia has no official religion its Constitution prohibits the Commonwealth government but not the states from establishing one or interfering with the freedom of religion 88 At the 2021 Census 38 9 of the population identified as having no religion 89 up from 15 5 in 2001 90 The largest religion is Christianity 43 9 of the population 91 The largest Christian denominations are the Roman Catholic Church 20 of the population and the Anglican Church of Australia 9 8 Multicultural immigration since the Second World War has led to the growth of non Christian religions the largest of which are Islam 3 2 Hinduism 2 7 Buddhism 2 4 Sikhism 0 8 and Judaism 0 4 92 In 2021 just under 8 000 people declared an affiliation with traditional Aboriginal religions 92 According to Australian Aboriginal mythology and the animist framework developed in Aboriginal Australia the Dreaming is a sacred era in which ancestral totemic spirit beings formed The Creation The Dreaming established the laws and structures of society and the ceremonies performed to ensure continuity of life and land 93 Population editThe current Australian resident population is estimated at 27 388 000 25 November 2023 94 This does not include Australians living overseas In 2015 2 15 of the Australian population lived overseas one of the lowest proportions worldwide 95 This ratio is much lower than many other countries in the OECD Historical population edit The data in the table is sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics 96 97 The population estimates do not include the Aboriginal population before 1961 Estimates of Aboriginal population prior to European settlement range from 300 000 to one million with archaeological finds indicating a sustainable population of around 750 000 98 Crown colonies Pre Federation Year Population Year Population1788 859 1848 332 3281798 4 588 1858 1 050 8281808 10 263 1868 1 539 5521818 25 859 1878 2 092 1641828 58 197 1888 2 981 6771838 151 868 1898 3 664 715 Year Population change1901 3 788 123 1906 4 059 083 7 21911 4 489 545 10 61916 4 943 173 10 11921 5 455 136 10 41926 6 056 360 11 01931 6 526 485 7 81936 6 778 372 3 4 Year Population change1941 7 109 898 4 91946 7 465 157 5 01951 8 421 775 12 81956 9 425 563 11 91961 10 548 267 11 91966 11 599 498 10 01971 13 067 265 12 71976 14 033 083 7 4 Year Population change1981 14 923 260 6 31986 16 018 350 7 31991 17 284 036 12 81996 18 310 714 5 92001 19 413 240 6 02006 20 848 760 7 42011 21 507 717 3 22014 estimate 23 500 000 9 3See also edit nbsp Australia portalAustralian Americans Australian Canadians Australian New Zealanders Australians in the United Kingdom Australians in China Australians in Greece Australians in India Australians in Italy Australians in Japan Australians in Turkey Australians in Thailand List of prime ministers of AustraliaNotes edit The ABS gives the following Explanatory Information regarding census interpretation of irreligion No religion is equivalent to Secular Beliefs and Other Spiritual Beliefs and No Religious Affiliation For further details see the Census of Population and Housing Census Dictionary cat no 2901 0 16 Only countries with 100 000 or more are listed here The Australian Bureau of Statistics 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