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The Impact of Immigration in Australia: A Demographic Approach (2001) Foster, William, et al. Immigration and Australia: Myths and Realities (1998) Jupp, James. From White Australia to Woomera: The Story of Australian Immigration (2007) excerpt and text search; Jupp, James. The English in Australia (2004) excerpt and text search; Jupp, James.
Australia maintains a list of skilled occupations that are currently acceptable for immigration to Australia. [52] In 2009, following the global financial crisis, the Australian government reduced its immigration target by 14%, and the permanent migration program for skilled migrants was reduced to 115,000 people for that financial year. [53]
The Australian diaspora are those Australians living outside of Australia. It includes approximately 598,765 Australian-born people living outside of Australia, [ 1 ] people who are Australian citizens and live outside Australia, and people with Australian ancestry who live outside of Australia.
Countries of birth of Australian estimated resident population (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2006 [122]). The overall level of immigration to Australia has grown substantially during the last decade. Net overseas migration increased from 30,000 in 1993 [123] to 118,000 in 2003–04. [124]
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Year Book Australia, 2009–10; Australian population: ethnic origins (DOC) Build Australian population graph 1960 – 2013 (World Bank data) Build Australian population projection graph till 2100 (United Nation data) Build Australian life expectancy at birth graph 1950 – 2013 (United Nation data)
In 2018, 54% of Australians say that ‘the total number of migrants coming to Australia each year is too high’. A minority say its ‘too low’ (14%). These results represent a significant rise in opposition to the existing migration rate – up 14 points since last year, and up 17 points since we first asked this question in 2014. [ 25 ]
People born in the United States as a percentage of the population in Australia divided geographically by statistical local area, as of the 2011 census Number of permanent settlers arriving in Australia from the US since 1991 (monthly) At the 2006 Australian Census, 71,718 Australian residents declared that they were American-born.
As of 30 June 2010, DIAC estimated that the number of visa overstayers in Australia was around 53,900, or 0.2 per cent of the Australian population. [3] In 2018, it was reported more than 60,000 foreigners are living illegally in Australia, [4] and by 2021 it was reported that increased to more than 100,000. [5]