The overseas-born population in Australia has increased to nearly 30% of the nation’s total population, according to the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
ABS head of migration statistics Jenny Dobak says data as of 30 June 2022 shows 7.7 million Australian residents were born overseas.
The figure represents 29.5% of Australia’s estimated population of 26 million people and is an increase of more than two per cent since 2021.
The data shows Western Australia had the highest proportion born overseas at 34% while Tasmania had the lowest at 16%.
More Aussies born in India, China and Nepal
England, India, China and New Zealand were the most represented countries for Australia’s overseas born, in that order.
Nearly a million people, 961,000, were recorded as having been born in England, making it the largest overseas-born cohort in Australia.
But ten years ago there were more than a million, showing the English dominance in Australian overseas-born ancestry has declined.
The fastest-growing migrant group in the past decade is people born in India, with 754,000 people recorded in that group in the latest data.
That’s nearly 398,000 more than were recorded in the cohort in 2012, the ABS says.
The number of people born in China and in Nepal make up the second and third fastest-growing cohorts for overseas-born Australians.
The ABS says the migrant group in Australia with the oldest median age is from Italy at 73 years, and the group with the youngest median age is from Nepal, at 29 years.
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