Demographics of Australia

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• For generations, the vast majority of immigrants came from the British Isles, and the people of Australia are still mainly of British or Irish ethnic origin.

• In the 2011 Australian census, the most commonly nominated ancestry was English (36.1%), followed by Australian (35.4%),Irish (10.4%), Scottish (8.9%), Italian (4.6%), German (4.5%), Chinese (4.3%), Indian (2.0%), Greek (1.9%), and Dutch (1.7%).

• Australia is the 52nd most populous country in the world. Its population is concentrated mainly in urban areas and is expected to exceed 28 million by 2030.

• Australia's population has grown from an estimated population of about 350,000 at the time of British settlement in 1788 due to numerous waves of immigration during the period since. Also due to immigration, the European component of the population is declining as a percentage.

• Australia has fewer than three persons per square kilometre of total land area. With 89.01% of its population living in urban areas, Australia is one of the world's most urbanised countries.

• The life expectancy of Australia in 1999–2001 was 79.7 years, among the highest in the world.

• In common with many other developed countries, Australia is experiencing a demographic shift towards an older population, with more retirees and fewer people of working age. In 2004, the average age of the civilian population was 38.8 years. A large number of Australians (759,849 for the period 2002–03;1 million or 5% of the total population in 2005) live outside their home country.

INTRODUCTION

Indigenous Australians as a percentage of the population as of the 2011 census

•The Indigenous population—Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders—was counted at 548,370 (2.5% of the total population) in 2011, a significant increase from 115,953 in the 1976 census. The increase is partly due to many people with Indigenous heritage previously having been overlooked by the census due to undercount and cases where their Indigenous status had not been recorded on the form.

•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. Some remote Indigenous communities have been described as having "failed state"-like conditions.

Indigenous population

Demographics of Australia

Indicator Rank MeasurePopulationPopulation 52nd 23,971,800EconomyGDP (PPP) per capita 19th $43,929GDP 12th $1.56 trillionUnemployment rate ↓ 57th 5.80%CO2 emissions 11th 18.3 t†

Electricity consumption 17th 213.5 TWhEconomic freedom 3rd 82.5PoliticsHuman Development Index 2nd 0.937Political freedom 1st (equal)* 1

Corruption (A higher score means less (perceived) corruption.) 11th 80

Press freedom 18th 5.38SocietyLiteracy Rate 21st 99%Broadband uptake 17th 13.8%Beer consumption 20th 4.49 L†

HealthLife Expectancy 5th 81.2Birth rate 148th 13.8‡

Fertility rate 137th 1.969††

Infant mortality 202nd 4.57‡‡

Death rate 122nd 7.56‡

Suicide Rate 50th ♂ 14.9†‡

4.4♀ †‡

HIV/AIDS rate 108th 0.10%Notes

↓ indicates rank is in reverse order (e.g. 1st is lowest)† per capita‡ per 1000 people†† per woman‡‡ per 1000 live births†‡ per 100,000 people per year

indicates males, indicates females♂ ♀

The following figures are ABS estimates for the resident population of Australia, based on the 2001 and 2006 Censuses and other data.

23,971,800 (as of 17 January 2016) 21,262,641 (July 2009 – CIA World Factbook) 21,180,600 (end December 2007) 20,848,760 (end December 2006 – preliminary) 20,544,064 (end December 2005) 20,252,132 (end December 2004) 20,011,882 (end December 2003) 19,770,964 (end December 2002)

Population

Estimated resident population of Australia since 1981

States and territories

State/territory Land area(km2)

Population(2011 census)

Population density(/km2)

% of populationin capital

Australian Capital Territory 2,358 357,222 151.49 99.6%

New South Wales 800,642 6,917,658 8.64 63%

Victoria 227,416 5,354,042 23.54 71%

Queensland 1,730,648 4,332,739 2.50 46%

South Australia 983,482 1,596,572 1.62 73.5%

Western Australia 2,529,875 2,239,170 0.89 73.4%

Tasmania 68,401 495,354 7.24 41%

Northern Territory 1,349,129 211,945 0.16 54%

Age structure

0–14 years – 18%15-24 years – 13.3%25-54 years – 41.8%55–64 years – 11.8%65 years and over – 15.1% (2014 estimate)

median age

Total: 37.3 yearsMale: 36.6 yearsFemale: 38.1 years (2009 est.)

Sex ratio

At birth: 1.06 male(s)/female Under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female 15–64 years: 1.03 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.84 male(s)/female Total population: 1 male(s)/female (2009)

Australia's age and gender structure in 2005, illustrated in a population pyramid

Australian population by age and sex (demographic pyramid) as of 1 July 2013

Map of the median age of Australians by Statistical Local Area in the 2011 census

Population growth rate

As of the end of September 2012, the population growth rate was 1.7%.This rate was based on estimates of:

one birth every 1 minute and 44 seconds,one death every 3 minutes and 32 seconds,a net gain of one international migrant every 2 minutes and 19 seconds leading toan overall total population increase of one person every 1 minute and 23 seconds.

In 2009, the estimated rates were:Birth rate – 12.47 births/1,000 population (Rank 164)Mortality rate – 6.68 deaths/1,000 population (Rank 146)Net migration rate – 6.23 migrant(s)/1,000 population. (Rank 15)

Urbanisation:

Urbanisation population: 89% of total population (2008) Rate of urbanisation: 1.2% annual rate of change (2005–2010)

Life expectancy at birth:

Total: 80.62 years World: 70 Male: 79.99 years Female: 84.15 years Total fertility rate:

1.969 children born/woman (2008)

HIV/AIDS:

Adult prevalence rate: 0.2% (2007 est.) People living with HIV/AIDS: 18,000 (2007 est.) Deaths: fewer than 200 (2003 est.)

Country of birth

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, on 30 June 2014 there were 6.6 million residents who were born outside Australia, representing 28% of the total population.The Australian resident population consists of people who were born in these countries:

Countries of birth of Australian estimated resident population, 2006.Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Ancestry of Australian population

•English (36.1%)•Australian (35.4%)•Irish (10.4%)•Scottish (8.9%)•Italian (4.6%)•German (4.5%)•Chinese (4.3%)•Indian (2.0%)•Greek (1.9%)•Dutch (1.7%)

•New Zealander (Pākehā/Māori)•Filipino•Vietnamese•Lebanese•New Zealander (Pākehā)•Polish•Maltese•Māori•Australian Aboriginal•Croatian•Welsh

At the 2011 Census residents were asked to describe their ancestry, in which up to two could be nominated. Proportionate to the Australian resident population, the most commonly nominated ancestries were:

At the 2011 census, 53.7% of people had both parents born in Australia and 34.3% of people had both parents born overseas.

Religion

•Australia is a religiously diverse country and it has no official religion.

•Christianity is the predominant faith of Australia, though this is diminishing. In the 2011 census, 61.1% of the population classified themselves as being affiliated with a Christian faith, down from 67.3% ten years earlier at the 2001 census.

•The largest religious denomination was Roman Catholicism, with 25.3% of the population.

•The next largest Christian denomination was Anglican at 17.1%, and all other Christian denominations accounted for a further 18.7% of the population.

•The second-largest group, and the one which had grown the fastest, was the 22.3% who claimed to have no religion. Over the ten years since the 2001 census, this group grew from 15.3% to 22.3% of the population; an increase of 7%, which was the largest change of any religious classification in that period.•Minority religions practised in Australia include Buddhism (2.5% of the population), Islam (2.2%), Hinduism (1.3%) and Judaism (0.5%). The Census question about religion is optional, and 8.6% of people did not respond in the 2011 census.

Languages

Language SpeakersOnly English 15,581,333Italian 316,895Greek 252,226Cantonese 244,553Arabic 243,662Mandarin 220,600Vietnamese 194,863Spanish 98,001Filipino 92,331German 75,634Hindi 70,011Macedonian 67,835Croatian 63,612Australian Aboriginal Languages 55,705

Korean 54,623Turkish 53,857Polish 53,389Serbian 52,534French 43,216Indonesian 42,036

Maltese 36,514Russian 36,502Dutch 36,183Japanese 35,111Tamil 32,700Sinhalese 29,055Samoan 28,525Portuguese 25,779Khmer 24,715Assyrian (Aramaic) 23,526Punjabi 23,164Persian 22,841Hungarian 21,565Bengali 20,223Urdu 19,288Afrikaans 16,806Bosnian 15,743

Literacy:

Definition: aged 15 years and over can read and write Total population: 99% Male: 99% Female: 99% (2003 est.)

Education expenditure:

4.9% of GDP (2013) country comparison to the world: 55

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