On average there are 316,997 births and 170,349 deaths in Australia per year. To compare, the unemployment rate of the UK & USA is 4% as of 2018. Although Australia has no official language, English has always been entrenched as the de facto national language. If a person in Australia reaches the age of 101  the will receive  a letter from the Queen. Migration, Urbanization and Structural Change, 2003, p. 444, G. Leitner, Australia's Many Voices: Australian English—The National Language, 2004, p. 79, W. Lines, Taming of the Great South Land: A History of the Conquest of Nature in Australia, 1991, p. 140, V. Colic-Peisker, Migration, Class and Transnational Identities: Croatians in Australia and America (Studies of World Migrations), 2008, p. 72, J. Abowd, R. Freeman, Immigration, Trade, and the Labor Market, 2007, p. 386, M. Dixson, The Imaginary Australian: Anglo-Celts and Identity, 1788 to the Present, p. 10. The country is vast, with large tracts of uninhabited land. Fun Facts – Australian bureau of national statistics. The annual growth was 357,000 people (1.4%). [47] During the 1950s, Australia was the destination of 30 per cent of Dutch emigrants and the Netherlands-born became numerically the second largest non-British group in Australia. In 2000, it was estimated to be 4 to 5 million people. There were 1.3 million British migrants to Australia in the period from 1861–1914, of whom 13.5 percent were Scots. Australia/Oceania. Long-term concerns include an aging population, pressure on infrastructure, and environmental issues such as floods, droughts, and bushfires. The data in the table is sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics[65][66] The population estimates do not include the Aboriginal population before 1961. [26][27][28][29] As you can see in the map in north Queensland there is increased growth, in particular around the city of Cairns. [39] In the 1840s, Scots-born immigrants constituted 12 percent of the Australian population. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) 2016 census, English is the only language spoken in the home for close to 72.7 percent of the population. The next most common languages spoken at home are:[75]. Currently that’s over 4,000 people. ", Department of Immigration and Citizenship, "2071.0 - Census of Population and Housing: Reflecting Australia - Stories from the Census, 2016", "National Indigenous Languages Survey Report 2005", "4713.0 – Population Characteristics, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, 2006", "20680-Language Spoken at Home (full classification list) by Sex – Australia", "116. : the "first peoples". Australia is the driest inhabited continent on earth, making it particularly vulnerable to the challenges of climate change. Majority (52.1 percent) were Christian, while 30.1 percent of the population reported as having no religion, of those reporting as having religious affiliations according to the 2016 census. [58] Eighteen years later, the east coast was occupied by Britain and later the west coast was also settled by Britain. In 2019 the population of Australia was 25,072,000 and the average age increased from 31.5 in 1960 to 38.9. [N 4][60] 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. Australia is ranked the 53rd largest country in the world by population. Out of the remaining 40 percent, 34 percent had been born in the British Isles, and 6 percent were of European origin, mainly from Germany and Scandinavia. United Nations statistics based on land mass. 82 per cent of Australians support immigration despite population concerns, Population growth fuelled by migrants, 'putting even more pressure' on parts of Sydney, Ireland or Australia? [51] Persons claiming one of these six ancestries alone represented 12.25 percent of the total population who nominated their ancestry.[51][B]. The states and territories of Australia are the second level of government division in Australia, ... SA4s are broader representations of labour forces in population centres, with 100,000–300,000 people in regional areas and 300,000–500,000 in metropolitan areas. [21], As a result of many shared linguistic, historical, cultural and geographic characteristics, Australians have often identified closely with New Zealanders in particular. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders account for 2.8% of the population in the most recent Australian government census. In 1770 James Cook claimed the east coast of Australia followed by the west creating settlements, officially making the continent a British colony. [41] Germans formed the largest non-British community for most of the 19th century. The life expectancy at birth should reach 87.4 (85.8 years for male and 89.0 years for females). Australia is home to around 24 million people. Sporting teams representing the whole of Australia have been in existence since the 1870s. ", Don Grant, Graham Seal, Australia in the World: Perceptions and Possibilities, 1994, p. 365, J. Jupp, From White Australia to Woomera: The Story of Australian Immigration, 2007, p. 16, J. Jupp, The English in Australia, Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 27, R. Watts, P. Trudgill, Alternative Histories of the English Language, Routledge, 2002, p. 70, B. Kachru, Y. Kachru, C. Nelson, The Handbook of World Englishes, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, p. 295, C. Meierkord, Interactions across Englishes: Linguistic Choices in Local and International Contact Situations (Studies in English Language), Cambridge University Press, 2012, p. 37, L. A history of early childhood education in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, 2009, p. 134, P. 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