“We have seen that the largest increase in the country of birth outside of Australia is India, with an additional 220,000 people counted, making India the second largest foreign-born population after England. overcoming China and New Zealand, “he said. Tuesday.
The total number of people born in India and living in Australia is 673,350.
Nepal-born population had more than doubled since the last census, said Dickinson, which rose to 122,500 in 2021.
“This change can be seen when Nepali is one of the five main languages now in Canberra and Tasmania,” Dickinson said.
The increase in migration from South Asia is also reflected in Australia’s changing religious beliefs: Hinduism, the dominant religion in Nepal and India, has grown by 55.3% and has been followed by 2.7% of the population.
Unlike the large number of continental Europeans, including people from Croatia and Germany, who drove the post-war migration boom in Australia, there were no ABS registered Nepalese migrants in the 1950s, and fewer than 50 in the 1970s. . But in the first decade of this century, about 24,200 people born in Nepal were in Australia, while 93,600 moved here in the 2010s.
Similarly, there were few migrants from India in the 1950s, but that number has grown from 10,600 in the 1970s, to 37,200 in the 1990s, 210,300 in the 2000s and almost 370,600 in the 2010s.
The recent increase in migration from these countries is reflected in the ages of these populations. Most are young: 62% of those born in India were between 25 and 44 years old in 2021, while more than two out of three people born in Nepal were between 25 and 44 years old at the time of the census and one in four they were between 15 and 24 years old.
Thirty-six per cent of the Indian-born population lives in Greater Melbourne. Melbourne also has a higher proportion of people born in Greece (49%) and Italy (36%).
The number of migrants from the Philippines has also skyrocketed, from 69,250 in the 2000s to 122,800 in the last decade. The vast majority (over 91,300) live in Sydney, while 43% of the 549,600 people born in China also live in the Greater Sydney region.
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