Migrants in Australia
Thu, 29 Jan, 2009
According to A Picture of the Nation: the Statistician’s Report on the 2006 Census, released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS):
- Almost half (44%) of all Australians were either born overseas or has at least one parent born overseas.
- In 2006, Australia’s Greek and Croatian born population had the highest citizenship rates with 97% and 96% respectively.
- Japan born residents had the lowest citizenship rate with 15%.
- Over 200 languages were spoken in Australian homes in 2006. The most common non-English languages were Italian (1.8%), Greek (1.4%), Cantonese (1.3%), Arabic (1.3%) and Mandarin (1.2%).
