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Just now, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the latest census data!
For the first time, the number of immigrants in Australia has exceeded half of the population, and India has become one of the top three countries of birth.
At the same time, these secrets of Australians have also been revealed...
#01:
Australian immigrants have become "mainstream" for the first time,
India has become the top three countries of birth
According to the "Australian Financial Review" report, Australia has become a country with a majority of immigrants.
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The just-released census data shows that for the first time, more than 50% of Australian residents were born overseas, and 48.2% of the population has immigrant parents.
Australia’s population has doubled in the past 50 years, with more than 1 million people added since 2017.
At the same time, India has surpassed China and New Zealand to become one of the top three countries of birth for Australia's population, second only to Australia and the United Kingdom.
This census was launched on August 10, 2021, and the data was released for the first time on Tuesday.
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Between the 2016 Census and the 2021 Census, About 220,000 people born in India became Australian residents, the largest increase.
Nepali immigration ranked second, with an increase of 67,752 people compared to 2016. This means that the number of Nepalese in Australia has more than doubled (123.7%) since 2016.
Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows that the top five ancestors of Australians are British (33.0%), Australians (29.9%), Irish (9.5%), Scots (8.6%) and Chinese ( 5.5%).
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About 5.5 million Australians speak a language other than English at home, an increase of 800,000 since 2016.
Among them, about 850,000 people claim to speak English poorly or not at all.
Mandarin remains the most common language other than English spoken in Australian households, with 685,274 speakers in 2021.
Followed by Arabic, while Punjabi has seen an increase of more than 80% in users since 2016.
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Australian statistician David Gruen said that On census night, excluding international tourists, there were nearly 25.5 million people in Australia.
has increased by more than 2 million people since 2016, or 8.6%.
Over the past 50 years, the number of people taking part in the census has more than doubled, from 12.4 million in 1971 to the current number.
Over 812,000 of them are Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, accounting for 3.2% of the total population in the census, an increase of more than 25% in five years.
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Australia’s Aboriginal population is growing, with more than 47,000 respondents aged 65 or over, more than double the 2011 figure.
More than 1 million residents arrived in Australia between 2017 and 2021, with four out of five overseas immigrants settling in Australia before the country closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
#02:
These secrets of Australians have been exposed
In addition to basic population data, this census also revealed more "secrets" about Australia's population.
Data shows that of the more than 5.5 million couples in Australia, 53% of the families still live with their children.
Since 1996, the proportion of households without children living at home has increased from 40.8% to 47%.
In addition, the number of single-parent families in Australia exceeded 1 million for the first time last year, and in most cases, it is a single mother raising her children.
data shows that of the 5.55 million families, nearly 1.07 million are single-parent families, four-fifths of which are single mothers with children.
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The proportion of single-parent households has increased since 1996, from 14.5% to 15.9% in 2021.
The proportion of couples without children has also increased steadily since 1996, when it was 40.8%.
This census also asked Australians for the first time about their chronic disease status. The survey showed that more than 8 million people suffer from chronic diseases, of which more than 2 million have mental health problems, and nearly 16% of the population suffers from back pain. , more than 2.1 million Australians suffer from arthritis.
Asthma is the 4th most common chronic disease, affecting 2.06 million people.
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Diabetes is also a major chronic disease, affecting 5.3% of the population, of which 0.6% has type 1 diabetes and 4.5% has type 2 diabetes.
This is followed by heart disease (4%), stroke and cardiovascular disease.
There are also about 3.6% of the population suffering from osteoporosis, and 1.6% suffering from chronic cancer
Women are more likely to suffer from chronic diseases than men, More than 750,000 respondents claimed to have 3 or more types of diseases Chronic diseases listed in the census.
The survey shows that Australia is becoming increasingly secular. Nearly 40% of the respondents said they have “no religious affiliation”, which is higher than 30% in 2016 and 22% in 2011.
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The number of people who consider themselves Christians has dropped from 60% in 2011 to 44% now.
Age is an important factor affecting religious belief. Nearly 60% of baby boomers said they have Christian religious beliefs, while only 30% of millennials said they have Christian religious beliefs.
The proportion of Islam in the Australian population has risen to 3.2%.
Australian residents’ housing choices are also changing. More than 500,000 people now live in high-rise apartments, which are nine floors or higher.
Finally
In the past few years since the outbreak, Australia has experienced too many hardships, but the population is still growing.
Not only that, immigrants from all over the world have also become the "mainstream" of the Australian population for the first time, and cultural diversity and tolerance are steadily improving.
I believe Australia’s future will be even better!
