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Per capita, Australia has more people of Chinese ancestry than any country outside Asia. As a whole, Australian residents identifying themselves as having Chinese ancestry made up 5.5% of Australia's population at the 2021 census. [1] [2]
Asian Australians are Australians of Asian ancestry, including naturalised Australians who are immigrants from various regions in Asia and descendants of such immigrants. At the 2021 census, the proportion of the population identifying as Asian amounted to approximately 17.4 percent with breakdowns of 6.5 percent from Southern and Central Asia, 6.4 percent from North-East Asia, and 4.5 percent ...
Australian and foreign born population pyramid in 2021. The following table shows Australia's population by country of birth as estimated by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 2022. It shows only countries or regions of birth with a population of over 100,000 residing in Australia.
The population of Australia is estimated to be 27,560,200 as of 13 December 2024. [10] It is the 54th [11] most populous country in the world and the most populous Oceanian country. Its population is concentrated mainly in urban areas, particularly on the Eastern, South Eastern and Southern seaboards, and is expected to exceed 30 million by ...
The Chinese language is the second-most spoken language in Australia.. Australia has more Chinese people per capita than any other country outside Asia.In the 2021 census, 1,390,693 Australians identified themselves as being of Chinese ancestry, representing 5.5% of the national population.
The Chinese government, Chinese companies, and Chinese organisations also have strong interests in Australia and can provide an extensive support network for Chinese immigrants to Australia. Because China restricted emigration up until 1983, prior to this year, most Chinese people came to Australia from Hong Kong (then a British colony, now a ...
Liang Lan-hsun, first Chinese Consul-General to Australia. The number of Chinese people in Australia rose significantly in the Victorian gold rush era, [3] and by 1861, was around 40,000, constituting 3.3% of the total population.
Chinese immigrants to Australia at the Pageant of Nations, Sydney Town Hall, 1938. ... Sydney's Chinese population held more or less steady, but as the rest of the ...