Demographics of Australia
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INTRODUCTION • 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
Indigenous population • 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 as a percentage of the population as of the 2011 census
• 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.
Demographics of Australia Indicator Population Population Economy GDP (PPP) per capita GDP Unemployment rate CO2 emissions Electricity consumption Economic freedom Politics Human Development Index Political freedom
Rank
Measure 52nd
23,971,800
19th 12th ↓ 57th 11th 17th 3rd
$43,929 $1.56 trillion 5.80% 18.3 t† 213.5 TWh 82.5
2nd 1st (equal)*
0.937 1
Corruption (A higher score means less (perceived) corruption.)
11th
80
Press freedom Society Literacy Rate Broadband uptake Beer consumption Health Life Expectancy Birth rate Fertility rate Infant mortality Death rate
18th
5.38
21st 17th 20th
99% 13.8% 4.49 L†
5th 148th 137th 202nd 122nd
81.2 13.8‡ 1.969†† 4.57‡‡ 7.56‡
Suicide Rate
50th
♂ 14.9†‡ ♀ 4.4†‡
HIV/AIDS rate Notes
108th
0.10%
↓ 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
Population 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)
Estimated resident population of Australia since 1981
States and territories
State/territory
Land area (km2)
Population (2011 census)
Population density (/km2)
% of population in 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 years Male: 36.6 years Female: 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 to an 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 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: • • • • • • • • • •
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, 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 Only English Italian Greek Cantonese Arabic Mandarin Vietnamese Spanish Filipino German Hindi Macedonian Croatian Australian Aboriginal Languages Korean Turkish Polish Serbian French Indonesian
Speakers 15,581,333 316,895 252,226 244,553 243,662 220,600 194,863 98,001 92,331 75,634 70,011 67,835 63,612 55,705 54,623 53,857 53,389 52,534 43,216 42,036
Maltese
36,514
Russian
36,502
Dutch
36,183
Japanese
35,111
Tamil
32,700
Sinhalese
29,055
Samoan
28,525
Portuguese
25,779
Khmer
24,715
Assyrian (Aramaic)
23,526
Punjabi
23,164
Persian
22,841
Hungarian
21,565
Bengali
20,223
Urdu
19,288
Afrikaans
16,806
Bosnian
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
REFERENCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Australia http://australiapopulation2016.com/