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The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, its People and their Origins (2002) Markus, Andrew, James Jupp and Peter McDonald, eds. Australia's Immigration Revolution (2010) excerpt and text search; O'Farrell, Patrick. The Irish in Australia: 1798 to the Present Day (3rd ed. Cork University Press, 2001)
Beginning in 1901, Australia maintained the White Australia policy for much of the 20th century, which forbid the entrance in Australia of people of non-European ethnic origins. Following World War II, the policy was gradually relaxed, and was abolished entirely in 1973. Since 1945, more than 7 million people have settled in Australia.
These are lists of countries by foreign-born population and lists of countries by number native-born persons living in a foreign country (emigrants).. According to the United Nations, in 2019, the United States, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Russia and France had the largest number of immigrants of any country, while Tuvalu, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, and Tokelau had the lowest.
[78] [80] Most immigrants are skilled, [81] but the immigration quota includes categories for family members and refugees. [81] The following table shows Australia's population by country of birth as estimated by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 2023. It shows only countries or regions or birth with a population of over 100,000 residing ...
[89] 131,000 people migrated to Australia in 2005-06 [125] and migration target for 2012–13 is 190,000. [ 126 ] [ 127 ] Australia and Switzerland , with about a quarter of their population born outside the country, are the two countries with the highest proportion of immigrants in the world.
The proportion increased from 26.5% a decade earlier after passing the quarter mark (25.1%) in 2010. ONS records of live births by the mother’s birth country date back to 2008.
In 2020, 2.34% of the Australian population lived overseas, which is lower than most OECD countries, except the USA (0.89%) and Japan (0.64%). Education levels of Australian expatriates were high: 44% of Australian expatriates in other OECD countries had a high level of education. [ 22 ]
Those over the age of 50 might find themselves shut out of residency in some of the world's most popular countries, such as Australia (unless of course you can meet strict criteria). Here are some ...