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As a consequence, ancestry was not included in either the 1991 or 1996 Censuses. Between 1987 and 1999, the Anglo-Celtic component of Australia's population declined from 75 per cent to 70 per cent. [37] In 1999, the Anglo-Celtic share of the Australian population was calculated as 69.9%. [38]
Other subsets of Anglo-Celtic Australians (that is, Australians with ancestry originating in the British Isles) include Irish Australians, Scottish Australians and Welsh Australians. There is a tendency to refer to these ancestries collectively due to their long history in Australia and the high degree of intermixture which has occurred over ...
Anglo-Celtic people are descended primarily from English and Irish, Scottish or Welsh people. [1] The concept is mainly relevant outside of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales , particularly in Australia, but is also used in Canada, the United States, New Zealand and South Africa , where a significant diaspora is located.
European Australians are citizens or residents of Australia whose ancestry originates from the peoples of Europe.They form the largest panethnic group in the country. [7] At the 2021 census, the number of ancestry responses categorised within European ancestral groups as a proportion of the total population amounted to more than 57.2% (46% North-West European and 11.2% Southern and Eastern ...
The census of 1901 showed that 98 percent of Australians had Anglo-Celtic ancestral origins. [61] In 1939 and 1945, still 98 percent of Australians had Anglo-Celtic ancestral origins. [62] Until 1947, the vast majority of the population were of British origin. [63] Germans formed the largest non-British Isles ancestry for most of the 19th ...
Australian Government poster issued by the Overseas Settlement Office to attract British immigrants (1928). Using data from the 2016 census, it was estimated that around 58% of the Australian population were Anglo-Celtic Australians with 18% being of other European origins, a total of 76% for European ancestries as a whole. [71]
According to the 2021 Australian census, 130,060 Australian residents were born in Scotland, while 2,176,777 claimed Scottish ancestry, either alone or in combination with another ancestry. [ 3 ] History
Australian people of Welsh descent (1 C, 109 P) Pages in category "Australian people of British descent" The following 63 pages are in this category, out of 63 total.